Burmese

Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar as the official language, lingua franca, and native language of the Bamar ethnic group. It is also spoken by indigenous tribes in Bangladesh and India. Burmese is the most widely spoken language in Myanmar, with 33 million speakers as a first language and 10 million speakers as a second language in 2007. It has a tonal, pitch-register, and syllable-timed structure, with a subject-object-verb word order and an agglutinative grammar. The language has a complex dialectology, with regional differences between Upper Burma and Lower Burma, but with mutual intelligibility among dialects. The standard dialect of Burmese is represented by the Yangon dialect due to the city's media influence and economic clout.learn more on wikipedia