Myazedi (Yazakuma) Stone Instription
The oldest surviving Burmese inscription, written in Burmese, Pyu, Mon, and Pali, it is the story of Prince Yazakuma.

The Burmese abugida is a script in the Brahmic family used in Myanmar for writing Burmese, Mon, and Kayin (Karen). The characters are rounded in appearance, because the traditional palm leaves used for writing would have been ripped by straight lines. Like English, it is written from left to right. Image File history File links Myazedistoneinscription. ... Image File history File links Myazedistoneinscription. ... Pyu (also written Pyuu, or Pyus) refers to an ancient kingdom (or: its language) found in the central and northern regions of what is now Burma. ... Mon can be: An abbreviation for Monday, the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. ... . Pāli (ISO 639-1: pi; ISO 639-2: pli) is a Middle Indo-Aryan dialect or prakrit. ... The Brahmic family is a family of abugidas used in South Asia and Southeast Asia. ... Mon can be: An abbreviation for Monday, the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. ... In stories common to the Abrahamic religions, Cain or Káyin (קַיִן / קָיִן Possession, Standard Hebrew Qáyin, Tiberian Hebrew Qáyin / Qāyin; Arabic قابيل Qābīl) is the eldest son of Adam and Eve, and the first man born in creation according to the Genesis. ... Genera Many; see list of Arecaceae genera Arecaceae (also known as Palmae or Palmaceae), the palm family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order Arecales. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

There are about 33 consonants က (pronounced ka) to ဠ (pronounced la). However, the last letter in the alphabet (အ; aa), although recognized as a consonant, is actually a vowel. Since the a is the only lettered vowel, when used with diacritics, it creates other vowel sounds. Like other members of the Brahmic family, the sounds of these are modified by accents put above, below or beside the character. The Brahmic family is a family of abugidas used in South Asia and Southeast Asia. ...

Diacritics

There are seven diactric marks that alter the vowel sound of a character.

•  ာ which sits to the right of a consonant and changes the sound to a longer aa sound.
•  ိ a small circle over a character, changes the pronunciation to an ee sound.
•  ီ
•  ု lies below a consonant.
•  ူ
• ေ  stands to the left of a consonant, changing the sound to an e as in the English word vet.
•  ဲ

One or more of these accents can be added to a consonant to change its sound. For instance ဟ is pronounced 'ha'. With the addition of the accent  ိ, ဟိ is pronounced 'hee'. If another accent ( ု) is added, ဟို is said as ho.

Digits

A decimal numbering system is used, and numbers are written in the same order as arabic numerals. Decimal, or less commonly, denary, usually refers to the base 10 numeral system. ... Arabic numerals (also called Hindu numerals or Hindu-Arabic numerals) are by far the most common form of symbolism used to represent numbers. ...

The numerals from zero to nine are: (Unicode 1040 to 1049). The number 1945 would be written as . Delimiters (such as commas) to separate numbers are not used. Image File history File links Burmese_numbers. ... Unicode is an industry standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers. ... Image File history File links Burmese_1945. ...

Punctuation

There are two break characters in Burmese, drawn as one or two downward strokes (၊ or ။), that act as a comma and a full stop respectively. The term comma has various uses; comma is the name used for one of the punctuation symbols: , The term comma is also used in music theory for various small intervals that arise as differences between approximately equal intervals. ... A full stop or period, also called a full point, is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of sentences in English and several other languages. ...

Burmese in Unicode

The Unicode range for Burmese (Myanmar) is U+1000 ... U+109F. Image File history File links Burmese_alphabets. ... Unicode is an industry standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers. ...

Fonts supporting Burmese characters

• Myanmar Wikipedia:Font page

See also:

• Brahmic family
• Burmese language
• Burmese Wikipedia