Burmese language
- noun
- /ˈbɜrˌmiːz ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
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idioma birmano
- During the prescreening period, explanatory information about the trial was delivered to the population through meetings and leaflets printed in the Karen and Burmese languages.
Examples
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"When the name was changed, it was a political statement," said San San Hnin Tun, a lecturer in Burmese language and visiting scholar at Cornell University.
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He wrote and sang many of her Mandarin songs in both the Shan and Burmese languages.
Academic text (2016) -
[ Burmese language ]
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As mentioned earlier, the lion's share of Sai Mao's lyrics in the Burmese language consists of active representation of Shan culture.
Academic text (2016) -
Sai Mao's Burmese-language songs about Shanland and Shan people are happy, cute, and nostalgic in their content.
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He learned to speak the Burmese language fluently while living in Myanmar.
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Many people in Myanmar communicate in the Burmese language, which is also used in government and education.
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The Burmese language has its own unique script and grammatical rules that differ from many other languages.
Synonyms
The main language spoken in Myanmar
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'Burmese language' is fully compositional: 'Burmese' names the people/locale or the language/adj from Burma and 'language' denotes a speech system, so together they clearly denote the language spoken in Myanmar. This adjective-noun naming pattern is cross-linguistically common and therefore immediately derivable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The term Burmese language comes from the name of the country 'Burma', which is now called 'Myanmar'. The word Burmese means 'from Burma', so Burmese language refers to the main language spoken by the people there and the country's official language.
