Burmese is related to Tibetan and very distantly related to Chinese. Other ethnic groups speak some 85 languages between them, but Burmese is the language of education and the media, of business and administration, and of communication between various ethnic groups. Burmese is the national language and the language of the ethnic Burmans who make up the majority of the population of over 50 million. South East Asia Section, School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics Languages of South East Asia at SOAS: Burmese (Myanmar)īurma (Myanmar) sits at the crossroads between South-East, East and South Asia, bordering India and Bangladesh to the west, and China, Laos and Thailand to the east.
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