[5] Burmese is spoken as a second language by another 10 million people, particularly ethnic minorities in Burma and those in neighbouring countries.

[7] Burmese was the fourth of the Sino-Tibetan languages to develop a writing system, after Chinese, Tibetan, and Tangut.

Some anglicisation of Burmese words were made with Rakhine pronunciations such as Irrawaddy for the Ayeyarwady River.

The following at typically considered languages: As far as natural language processing research dealing with interaction of computers and Burmese human-spoken language is concerned, during the period spanning more than 25 years, from 1990 to 2016, notable work has been done and annotated in the areas of Burmese language word identification, segmentation, disambiguation, collation, semantic parsing and tokenization followed by part-of-speech tagging, machine translation systems , text keying/input, text recognition and text display methods.

These four languages use the Roman alphabet through spelling introduced by Christian missionaries in the twentieth century.

The four languages are: Other Loloish languages include the Nusu[11] The largest linguistic diversity, however, is in Chin State, where even the tern "Chin" is a Burmese name given to fifty-two named groups with shared similarities.

Most remaining Austroasiatic languages today are in Shan State from the Palaungic branch.