Burmese

Burmese is the official language of Myanmar (formerly Burma), belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is written using the Burmese script, which is derived from the ancestor of various Southeast Asian scripts. Burmese is a tonal language, meaning pitch affects meaning, and it features a subject-object-verb sentence structure. It is spoken by approximately 33 million people as their first language and serves as a key element of Myanmar's cultural identity. The language includes distinct honorifics and levels of speech to convey respect and social hierarchy.