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Beginning Burmese Lessons Different tones in Burmese

Beginning Burmese Lessons Different tones in Burmese. In a tone language ( tonal language ), different tones (like in music) will change the meaning of the words, even if pronunciation of the word is the same otherwise.

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Beginning Burmese Lessons Different tones in Burmese

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  1. Beginning Burmese LessonsDifferent tones in Burmese

  2. In a tone language (tonal language), different tones (like in music) will change the meaning of the words, even if pronunciation of the word is the same otherwise. • English and almost all other European languages are not tone languages at all. • Many East Asian languages are tone languages such as all the Chinese languages, Vietnamese, a small number of Korean dialects • (From Wikipedia..)

  3. In a tonal language, placing different emphasis on the vowel changes the meaning. • Some Burmese words maysound identical to untrained ears, but mean different things because there's tonal differences.

  4. အအာအိအီအုအူေအအဲေအာ့ ေအာ္ အံအား aareieououuaeaiawtawarnar: အအာအားအာ့ aarar: art အိအီအီး eiee: အု အူ အူး ououuou: ေအာ့ ေအာ္ ဩ awtawaw:

  5. Some phrases • Sogood. kaun: liteta • It’s yummy/very delicious. sa: lo kaun:liteta • Very lovely. chit sayakaun: like ta • So cute. chitsaya lay • Any discount? shau par ohm: • I’m full. wa bi • It is enough. taw bi • That’s all. dar par be

  6. Come…… lar par • Comehere…. dekolar par • Here… de… de ko…. demhar • I am here. • Kyanawde mharshi de • Go… thwa: par • Gothere… ho kothwa: par • There… ho…ho ko… homhar… • I will be there.. kyanawhomharshime

  7. counting ရာ (short vowel ) ေထာင္ (long vowel) ေတာင္း (open vowel) khu (short vowel ) se(long vowel) yar (short vowel ) taun(long vowel) taun: (open vowel) 1 thakhu (short) 10 thase (long) 100 thayar (short vowel ) 1,000 thataun(long vowel) 10,000 thataun: (open vowel)

  8. Some Burmese lesson sites: Sample video –at Myanmar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGzU9d7qH2A Lessons from the monk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRNVz4kTyOg Burmese Alphabets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTAYvHE_feQ How to write Burmese Alphabets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejpp41JJC1w

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