Burmese[a] is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Myanmar, [2] where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar, the country's largest ethnic group.
The Burmese people call their own language Bamar or Myanmar and it is the main language spoken throughout the country. About 70 percent of the people of Burma speak one or other of the Burma Group of languages while the percentage of those speaking Burmese is estimated at ninety.
Burmese is a tonal language with three main tones (high, low and creaky) and two other tones (stopped and reduced). The tones are indicated in writing using diacritics or special letters. ဃ (gh), ဈ (jh), ဋ (ṭ), ဌ (ṭh), ဍ (ḍ), ဎ (ḍh), ဏ (ṇ), ဓ (dh), and ဠ (ḷ) are used mainly in words of Pali origin.
Burmese and most of the other languages belong to the Tibeto-Burman subfamily of Sino-Tibetan languages. The Shan language belongs to the Tai family. Languages spoken by the Mon of southern Myanmar and by the Wa and Palaung of the Shan Plateau are members of the Mon-Khmer subfamily of Austroasiatic languages.
Burmese, also known as Myanmar language, is the official language of Myanmar (Burma) and is spoken by over 33 million native speakers, with an additional 10–15 million second-language speakers.
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Burmese is the official language of Myanmar, linguistically related to Tibetan and Chinese. It is written in circular and semi-circular letters, derived from the Mon character. The alphabet is an imitation of the Mon character which evolved from the male Indian character in the 700s.