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Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken mainly in Myanmar, where it is an official language and the native tongue of the majority ethnic group. It is also spoken by indigenous peoples in Bangladesh and India. The Burmese language has an alphabet with eleven vowels and thirty-two consonants, which is derived from the Pahlavi script of South India. It is not ideographic like Chinese, and belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Burmese is quite different from other Southeast Asian languages like Thai, Lao and Khmer in terms of its phonology, grammar, vocabulary, and writing.
The Uzbek language is the official and national language of Uzbekistan, spoken by 44 million people as either a native or second language. It is a member of the Turkic language family within the Altaic language group and is spoken in Uzbekistan, eastern Turkmenistan, northern and western regions of Afghanistan, and northwestern parts of Tajikistan. Uzbek consists of two distantly related languages: Northern and Southern Uzbek, which are distinct languages with their own speakers. The language is agglutinative, similar to Turkish, and is one of the most studied languages among those of the former USSR in Russia. Uzbek and Russian are the most commonly spoken languages in Uzbekistan.
