i learned the alphabet differently, like Ka, i say Ka-gi, kha-kha-gway, and etc. and i think that way is better and less confusing for people to learn, its rather difficult for, i still haven't remember all perfectly yet, but i speak it well,
Hi our Burmese friends, your language is very similar with my Khmer Language. Our Khmer alphabets has 33 characters also and with almost the same sound. I'm very happy to hear it. We are brothers and sisters...
I work with a bunch of Myanmar people and they are awesome! They teach me how to speak their language and it's so cool! They are ALL my (Tanggejih) I don't know if that's correct but it means friend so yep. I love Burmans! :D
My grandfather went to fight world war2 from nepal as a gurkha soldier and resided there in burma everyone in my family knows how to speak burmese but due to internal war conflicts our generation left burma and came back to nepal . but the funny thing is burmese language pronounciation sound so similar to nepalese pronounciation KA ,KHa,GA, GHA ,NA CHA CHHA JHA JHAA AANA ASK ANY PEOPLE FROM NEPAL THEY WILL BE SHOCKED TO HEAR UR LANGUAGE SOUNDS SIMILAR TO OURS
tibetan and burmese alphabets sound so similar.burmese alphabets are arranged in six rows of 5 alphabets and a seventh row of 3 alphabets i see.tibetan alphabets are arranged in seven rows of 4 alphabets and an eighth row of 2 alphabets.
i have a feeling the burmese script was also derived from INDIC script.the indic script is also arranged in rows of 5 alphabets but i think indic has most alphabets out of the three.
Hola, soy chileno tambien! Anyway, I'm wondering the same. Do different consonants sound alike but are written different depending on the vowel? or tone?
@forsakentoyou Indeed - it sounds to my foreign ears (unfamiliar to the Burmese language) that sa, sa, za and za (the first four consonants on second row) are the same :-S I guess it takes time to be able to pick up the nuances and differentiate between them?
Exactly! In spanish (my native language), at least for spanish people, thete are differences between letters 's' and 'z'. "S" sounds like the common S in english. The sound of "Z" sounds like $TH$ in $thin$ in english.
But in southemerica, both of them are pronounced the same way (like "S" in english). So for me, it's very hard to notice the differences between SA, ZA or other combinations :(
@forsakentoyou The reason so many characters are pronounced the same is that they were derived from Indic languages (Sanskrit, Pali), but lost their differentiations. So, for instance, the dental stops t, th, d, dh and retroflex stops t., th., d., dh. from Sanskrit (8 sounds in all) became 3 sounds in Burmese: t, ht and d.
It's interesting that the Burmese letter တ (ta) is the same that the Georgian letter თ which is also sounds: t .
DrArisztid 4 months ago
I am a Chin native from Burma but have only lived in Burma for a total of 4 years (2 years in Rangoon).
There is a large Chin community here in Indiana but it is hard to find a Burmese speaker with a perfect tongue that can teach me this. Thanks. haha
AceofDlamonds 6 months ago
It looks like Bengali language
bdmanus 6 months ago
i learned the alphabet differently, like Ka, i say Ka-gi, kha-kha-gway, and etc. and i think that way is better and less confusing for people to learn, its rather difficult for, i still haven't remember all perfectly yet, but i speak it well,
ksoe76 7 months ago
Wowwww.. thank you :) thank you very much :)
blommasidan 7 months ago
I'm trying to learn a bit of Burmese and this is very helpful. Thanks!
LokHangLorraine 9 months ago
Hi our Burmese friends, your language is very similar with my Khmer Language. Our Khmer alphabets has 33 characters also and with almost the same sound. I'm very happy to hear it. We are brothers and sisters...
Nonatake 11 months ago
I work with a bunch of Myanmar people and they are awesome! They teach me how to speak their language and it's so cool! They are ALL my (Tanggejih) I don't know if that's correct but it means friend so yep. I love Burmans! :D
Kimzyen 1 year ago
My grandfather went to fight world war2 from nepal as a gurkha soldier and resided there in burma everyone in my family knows how to speak burmese but due to internal war conflicts our generation left burma and came back to nepal . but the funny thing is burmese language pronounciation sound so similar to nepalese pronounciation KA ,KHa,GA, GHA ,NA CHA CHHA JHA JHAA AANA ASK ANY PEOPLE FROM NEPAL THEY WILL BE SHOCKED TO HEAR UR LANGUAGE SOUNDS SIMILAR TO OURS
TheTearsofheaven 1 year ago
Your video is great and i'm brand new to the burmese language i can say some words but mainly type them the way they sound.
I would love to learn much more and get further in the language apart from the numbers because they are easy for me but only from 1-10.
Jenzo1990 1 year ago
wow! ur myamar pronunciation is awesome!!!!!! i'm very glad to hear that :) :) :) :)
ChanMyaeKhine 1 year ago
how about the vowels?
iwillLOVEGOD4ever 1 year ago
May be you can pronounce "Ka nge" and "Ka gyi" to differentiate two same pronunciation letter. We all had to learn like that since we were young.l
"Ka gyi" , "kha gway" , "Ga nge" , "Ga gyi", "Nga"..
"Sa lone", "Sa lane"... like those. :)
jenniferthin 1 year ago 2
Damn! it sounds like tibetan language!
dolish34 2 years ago
Similar to tibetan alphabet:
ka ka gha nga
tsha cha ja nya
ta tha dha na
pa pha bha ma
tsa tsah za wha
shah zha wha ya
ra la sha sa
ha ah
Ganeschar 2 years ago
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Ganeschar 2 years ago
wow
LearnTibetan 2 years ago
tibetan and burmese alphabets sound so similar.burmese alphabets are arranged in six rows of 5 alphabets and a seventh row of 3 alphabets i see.tibetan alphabets are arranged in seven rows of 4 alphabets and an eighth row of 2 alphabets.
i have a feeling the burmese script was also derived from INDIC script.the indic script is also arranged in rows of 5 alphabets but i think indic has most alphabets out of the three.
TerakuOimikado 2 years ago
Thank you for wonderful videos.I am from Taiwan. This and number teaching are really helpful.
reehc 2 years ago
Hi, I'm from Chile!
Thank you for your video!
Please, i need ypur help:
Why ther are so many characters that are pronounced the same way as many others!?!?
It's very hard! hehehehe
Thank you!
forsakentoyou 2 years ago 2
same sound but can be different in meaning for writing system
boedawgyi 2 years ago
Hola, soy chileno tambien! Anyway, I'm wondering the same. Do different consonants sound alike but are written different depending on the vowel? or tone?
javierchile88 2 years ago
@forsakentoyou Indeed - it sounds to my foreign ears (unfamiliar to the Burmese language) that sa, sa, za and za (the first four consonants on second row) are the same :-S I guess it takes time to be able to pick up the nuances and differentiate between them?
LokHangLorraine 9 months ago
@LokHangLorraine
Exactly! In spanish (my native language), at least for spanish people, thete are differences between letters 's' and 'z'. "S" sounds like the common S in english. The sound of "Z" sounds like $TH$ in $thin$ in english.
But in southemerica, both of them are pronounced the same way (like "S" in english). So for me, it's very hard to notice the differences between SA, ZA or other combinations :(
forsakentoyou 9 months ago
@forsakentoyou The reason so many characters are pronounced the same is that they were derived from Indic languages (Sanskrit, Pali), but lost their differentiations. So, for instance, the dental stops t, th, d, dh and retroflex stops t., th., d., dh. from Sanskrit (8 sounds in all) became 3 sounds in Burmese: t, ht and d.
criskity 6 months ago
is heard for me to say the words
katyaye1981 2 years ago
I taught Burmese to my us born cousin and he picked pretty quick. may be you have lost your mother tongue. :)
boedawgyi 2 years ago