How do you say Happy New Year in Burmese?

There are 26 vowels in modern Burmese: 7 monosyllabic vowels, 8 short vowels, 7 nasal vowels and 4 diphthongs.

The main word-formation methods are: appending (including prefix and suffix), inserting and overlapping. In these ways, the part of speech and the meaning of words can be changed.

Basic word order: subject-object-predicate

Extended data

Burmese is a kind of phonography with a long history and rich historical records. From these precious historical materials, we can see that the language in Myanmar has undergone great changes in all aspects, whether it is pronunciation, vocabulary or grammar. Among them, the change of consonant ending is an important phonetic change phenomenon.

This paper makes some research on the changes of consonant endings in Burmese, and finds that the changes of consonant endings in Burmese are very similar to those in Chinese and some ethnic minorities in China. Studying the historical evolution of Burmese language can not only find out the development law of Burmese language itself, but also provide valuable reference for studying the development of relative language.