The Burmese often use family names such as "brother", "sister", "auntie" in place of "you" and "I".īurmese, similar to French, rarely has consonant endings, because most become glottal stops (like the break in uh-oh!) or nasalised. Its grammar also contains many prefixes and suffixes indicating tense and mood. As a rule, all objects must be attached to a -go particle.īurmese has an array of honorifics. Subjects and objects are omitted when such is implied in context. The government uses the term "Myanmar" to describe the language, although most continue to refer to the language as "Burmese".īurmese word order is subject-object-verb, unlike English word order, which is subject-verb-object. It is closely related to Tibetan, and distantly related to Chinese. Burmese (မြန်မာစကား myen mar sa gar) is the official and primary language of Myanmar.
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