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Lingo7 lets you read books with a translation under every sentence in 49 languages. Burmese is not one of them yet. Ask for it below, and see what adding it takes and what reading Burmese involves.
Lingo7 does not read Burmese yet: the app has no Burmese dictionary, audio or books, and Burmese text needs splitting into words, since they run together. You can vote for Burmese here. Leave your email to vote; we add the most requested languages first and write to you once, when Burmese is ready.
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The demo below is the live reader with a German book. Burmese would work the same way once it is added.
Spoken in: Myanmar
The Burmese script is an abugida of 33 consonant letters, almost all built from circles and arcs, a shape usually put down to palm leaves, which tear when a stylus draws straight lines. Each consonant carries a built-in vowel, and other vowels and tone marks sit above, below, before or after it; stacked consonants appear mostly in loanwords from Pali and Sanskrit. Words run together, and modern texts usually put a space only after each clause.
Written Burmese has two registers. Literary Burmese, which has changed little since the 13th century and is the form taught in schools, is used in newspapers, radio news, formal writing and novels; the spoken form is used in conversation, television, comics and much informal writing. They differ most in the small grammar words: the plural marker is များ in literary and တွေ in spoken Burmese, "and" is နှင့် against နဲ့, and the possessive is ၏ against ရဲ့.
Digital text has its own trap. Until 2019 most Burmese websites and phones used Zawgyi, a font that encoded the script in a non-standard way, and on 1 October 2019 the government moved the country to Unicode. Text written in one system shows up garbled in the other, so older web pages and documents may need converting before they display correctly.
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There is no date yet. We add the most requested languages first, and Burmese needs the work described on this page. Leave your email in the form and we will write to you once, when Burmese is ready.
Not yet. Lingo7 has no Burmese dictionary, audio or shelf of books, so a Burmese book would not get the sentence-by-sentence translation and word lookups the app is built on. The 49 languages it does read are listed on the home page.
One vote per email address per language. The count on this page shows a number once at least 10 people have asked, and refreshes within a minute of a new vote. Your email is stored only to tell you when Burmese launches, and deleted whenever you ask at support@lingoseven.com.
Probably because it was written in Zawgyi, a non-standard font encoding that most Burmese websites used before Myanmar moved to Unicode on 1 October 2019. Zawgyi text looks broken on a Unicode device and the other way round, so it has to be converted to display properly.
Yes. Literary Burmese, used in newspapers, radio news and most books, keeps older particles and longer word forms, while spoken Burmese uses different ones: the plural marker is များ in writing and တွေ in speech. Television, comics and much informal writing use the spoken form, so readers learn both.
Burmese has four contrastive tones, and the spelling shows them. The high tone is written with း, which looks like a colon after the syllable, and the creaky tone with a dot below, ့. Some vowel signs also carry a tone of their own.