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Myanma is the written, literary name of the country, while Bama is the spoken name of the country .< ref name = Yule > According to the Scottish orientalist Henry Yule ( Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and discursive, London, 1886 ( new edition edited by William Crooke, London, 1903 ), p. 131 ) the term Myanma, for example, comes from Mran-mâ, the national name of the Burmese people, which is pronounced Bam-mâ by Burmeses themselves, except when speaking in formal or emphatic way.
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Myanma and is
* Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise ( MOGE ) is a national oil and gas company of Burma.
Taungoo Airport is the area's only airport, and served only by Myanma Airways with regular flights to Yangon, Mandalay, Naypyidaw, Loikaw, Tachilek, and Taunggyi.
A once weekly Myanma Airways flight is available, as are three times a week river ferries.
In the Burmese language, Burma is known as either Myanma ( 40px ) or Bama ( 27px ).
The colloquial name Bama is supposed to have originated from the name Myanma by shortening of the first syllable, from loss of nasal final " an " (), reduced to non-nasal " a " (), and loss of " y " () glide ), and then by transformation of " m " into " b ".
Today in Burmese the name is still spelled Mranma, but over time the " r " sound disappeared in most dialects of the Burmese language and was replaced by a " y " glide, so although the name is spelled " Mranma ", it is actually pronounced Myanma.
First, Myanma is the official name of the country in the Burmese language, and the aim of the commission was to have English place names aligned with Burmese place names and pronunciation.
The final " r " in the English " Myanmar " is absent in Burmese Myanma ( much as the medial " r " in " Burma " is absent in standard Burmese Bama ).
The reason why the commission added a final " r " in English was to represent the low tone of Burmese, in which the word Myanma is pronounced.
The regime believes that Myanma is more inclusive of minorities than Bama, while opponents point out that historically, Myanma is only a more literary version of Bama.
Opposition parties, although they oppose the English name " Myanmar ", do not oppose the official Burmese name Myanma, and no opposition party is proposing to use the colloquial name Bama as the official name of the country.
It is served by all domestic airlines -- Air Bagan, Air Mandalay, Myanma Airways and Yangon Airways -- with regular flights to Yangon and other cities across the country.
Myanma and name
See Franco Maria Messina, Quale nome per la Birmania ?, Indiamirabilis,, 2009 .</ ref > Although Bama may be a later transformation of the name Myanma, both names have been in use alongside each other for centuries.
In the 1920s, some favoured the name Myanma, which had been the name applied to the old Burmese kingdom destroyed by the British in the 19th century.
In the 1930s, the left-wing independence parties favoured the name Bama, as they thought this name was more inclusive of minorities than Myanma.
The name Myanma / Myanmar was expanded to include all citizens of the country while the name Bama / Bamar was kept to its original meaning.
Second, the commission thought that the name Myanma was more inclusive of minorities than the name Bama, and wanted the English name of the country to reflect this.
Myanma and while
* January 27 – A Myanma Airways Fokker F27 crashed while taking off from Yangon, Myanmar killing 16 of the 45 people on board.
* August 24 – Myanma Airways Flight 635, a Fokker F27 Friendship, crashes in Manibagi, Myanmar, during poor weather while on approach to Tachilek Airport in Tachilek, Myanmar ( Burma ), killing all 36 people on board.
Myanma and Bama
While both the names Bama and Myanma historically referred only to the Burmans and not other ethnic minorities, the Burmese governments in the post-independence period have instituted a differentiation of meaning between Myanmar and Bamar in the official Burmese language usage.
Myanma and new
In 1990, a new unit, PETRONAS Carigali Overseas Sdn Bhd, was created to take up a 15 % interest in a field in Myanmar's waters being explored by Idemitsu Myanmar Oil Exploration Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of the Japanese firm Idemitsu Oil Development Co. Ltd., in a production sharing arrangement with Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise.
Myanma and by
* Myanmar Airways International, the Myanmar international airline, partly owned by Myanma Airways.
On 29 September 2003 it was reported that Air Myanmar, a joint venture by Myanma Airways and companies in Burma, France and Singapore was planning to begin chartered international cargo and passenger flights by the end of the year.
On 28 July 2004 The Myanma Airways of the Ministry of Transport and its partners signed an agreement to launch the Air Myanmar Line, with an address by Minister for Transport Major General Hla Myint Swe.
Myanma and .
American companies and people will be allowed to invest in the state-owned Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, but any investors will need to notify the State Department within 60 days.
* Myanma. com web site Myanmar Search Engine
Matches today are carried out in both the traditional manner and a more modern offshoot called " Myanma traditional boxing " which started in 1996.
It was established as a joint venture between Air Mandalay Holdings Singapore ( 51 %) and Myanma Airways.
Yangon Airways was established in 1996 as a joint venture between Myanma Airways and Krong-Sombat Co. from Thailand.
King Mindon in the mid-19th century was the first to refer to himself as the king of the ' Myanma people ', in an attempt to ethnicize his rule, at a time when his rule was largely confined to the Irrawaddy Valley and the Myanmar ethnic group.
Myanma and national
* Myanma Airways, the Myanmar national airline
Myanma and Burmese
* The Burmese language, or Myanma bhasa ( မ ြ န ် မ ာ ဘ ာ သ ာ)
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