The more numerous of the Tibeto-Burman-speaking peoples are the Burmese ( 42 million ), Yi ( Lolo ) ( 7 million ), Tibetans ( 6 million ), Karen ( 5 million ), Bhutanese ( 1. 5 million ), Manipuris ( 1. 5 million ), Naga ( 1. 2 million ), Tamang ( 1. 1 million ), Chin ( 1. 1 million ), Newar ( 1 million ), Bodo ( 1. 5 million ), Kachin ( 1 million ).

*-( l ) ese ( Aragon → Aragonese, Assam → Assamese, Benin → Beninese, Bhutan → Bhutanese, Burma → Burmese ( though see below ; Irregular forms ), Calabria → Calabrese, China → Chinese, Congo → Congolese, Da Lat ( Vietnam ) → Dalatese, East Timor → East Timorese, The Faroe Islands → Faroese, Gabon → Gabonese, Genoa → Genovese, Guangdong → Cantonese, Guyana → Guyanese, Hong Kong → HongKongnese / Chinese, Japan → Japanese, Lebanon → Lebanese, Macao → Macanese / Chinese, Malta → Maltese, Marshall Islands → Marshallese, Milan → Milanese, Nepal → Nepalese, Piedmont → Piedmontese, Portugal → Portuguese, San Marino → Sammarinese, Sark → Sarkese, Senegal → Senegalese, Shanghai → Shanghainese, Sikkim → Sikkimese, ( South ) Sudan → ( South ) Sudanese, Suriname → Surinamese, Republic of China → Taiwanese, Togo → Togolese, Turin → Torinese, the Tyrol → Tyrolese, Vienna → Viennese, Vietnam → Vietnamese )

From the time of the signing of the Burmese Constitution in 1948, ethnic minorities have been denied Constitutional rights, access to lands that were traditionally controlled by their peoples and participation in the government.

For instance, the Malay empires of Srivijaya and Malacca covered modern day Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore while the Burmese, Thai, and Khmer peoples governed much of Indochina.

Northern Thailand, as well as being home to many Chinese Muslims, also is home to many Burmese, and mixed Chinese-Burmese or Pakistani-Burmese peoples.

A large portion of Burmese Chinese is thought to have some kabya blood, possibly because immigrants could acquire Burmese citizenship through intermarriage with the indigenous Burmese peoples.

The Anglo-Burmese, also known as the Anglo-Burmans, are a community of Eurasians of Burmese and European descent, and emerged as a distinct community through mixed relations ( sometimes permanent, sometimes temporary ) between the British and other European settlers and the indigenous peoples of Burma from 1826 until 1948 when Burma gained its independence from the United Kingdom.

With little or no support from successive Burmese governments, the Mon language ( especially written Mon ) continues to be propagated mostly by Mon monks.

The Mon ( or ; ; ; ) are an ethnic group from Burma ( Myanmar ), living mostly in Mon State, Bago Division, the Irrawaddy Delta, and along the southern Thai – Burmese border.

Opened in May 2011, Night Hunters is an area that mostly houses a variety of nocturnal animals, such as Eurasian Eagle Owls, Aardvarks, Vampire Bats, Burmese Pythons, Fennec Foxes and Fossa, but also houses several species of wild cat, such as Pallas Cats, Ocelots, Clouded Leopards, Fishing Cats, Sand Cats and Caracals.

A large number of Karen also reside in Thailand, mostly on the Thai – Burmese border.

That area was mostly populated by the Arakanese descendants and ruled by the Burmese ( Myanmar ) noble descendants who started to call themselves in Arakanese language as Marma.

2001: At the 2001 Video Music Awards, Britney Spears gave another memorable performance when she took the stage to sing her new single, " I'm a Slave 4 U. " Along with dancing in a very revealing outfit, the performance is probably most remembered for featuring the singer in a cage with a tiger and briefly dancing with a live albino Burmese Python on her shoulders.

Pindale gave him permission to live at Sagaing, near the Burmese capital of Ava ( both near the modern Burmese city of Mandalay ), provided his men surrendered their weapons.

Once he reached the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) in March 1986, Roberts would bring a huge, live Burmese Python ( though various snakes were used over the years, most were named " Damien ") to ringside in a canvas bag.

Along with dancing in a very revealing outfit, the performance is probably most remembered for featuring a number of exotic animals, including a white tiger and a live albino Burmese Python on her shoulders, the latter of which has become one of Spears ' most iconic images.

The Bamar live primarily in the Irrawaddy basin, and speak the Burmese language, which is also the official language of Burma.

Burmese Indians () are a group of people of Indian subcontinental ethnicity who live in Myanmar ( Burma ).

North Andaman Island is south of Burma, although a few smaller Burmese islands are closer, including the three Coco Islands.

** Burmese New Year, or Thingyan ( Burma )

") Dacoits existed in Burma as well as India, and Rudyard Kipling's fictional Private Mulvaney was hunting Burmese " dacoits " in The Taking of Lungtungpen.

He drew on his experiences in the Burma police for the novel Burmese Days ( 1934 ) and the essays " A Hanging " ( 1931 ) and " Shooting an Elephant " ( 1936 ).

A colleague, Roger Beadon, recalled ( in a 1969 recording for the BBC ) that Orwell was fast to learn the language and that before he left Burma, " was able to speak fluently with Burmese priests in ' very high-flown Burmese.

In Burma, he struck out at a Burmese boy who while " fooling around " with his friends had " accidentally bumped into him " at a station, with the result that Orwell " fell heavily " down some stairs.

* Burma / Myanmar – Two Burmese companies produce unlicensed copies of jeeps ; Myanmar Jeeps and Chin Dwin Star Jeeps.

They were followed by Rohingya Muslim refugees from western Burma ( for more information, see Burmese people in Pakistan ), and Asian refugees from Uganda.

At the time of the fall of the ancient Siam capital of Ayutthaya in 1767, the invading Burmese troops rounded up thousands of Thais and took them to Burma as prisoners.

Today, some have wrongly attributed the legend of Nai Khanomtom to King Naresuan, who spent his youth as a royal hostage in Burma while Ayutthaya was a Burmese vassal.

" Brian Leber ( 41-year-old jeweler who founded The Jewellers ' Burma Relief Project ) stated that: " For the time being, Burmese gems should not be something to be proud of.

The GAO report, entitled " Assistance Programs Constrained in Burma ," outlines the specific efforts of the Burmese government to hinder the humanitarian work of international organizations, including by restricting the free movement of international staff within the country.

The current state of the Burmese economy has also had a significant impact on the demographics of Burma, as economic hardship results in extreme delays of marriage and family building.

The most serious problem was the tension between Karen Officers, coming from the British Burma Army and Bamar officers, coming from the Patriotic Burmese Force ( PBF ).

In accordance with agreement reached at the Kandy Conference in September 1945, the Tatmadaw was reorganised by incorporating the British Burma Army and the Patriotic Burmese Force.

US and European government sanctions against the military government, coupled with boycotts and other direct pressure on corporations by western supporters of the Burmese democracy movement, have resulted in the withdrawal from Burma of most U. S. and many European companies.

Ireland supported a UN commission of inquiry and international level monitoring of the situation in Burma after 2008, as part of their efforts to support the Burmese people in their struggle for democracy and human rights.

Following the end of World War II, ambassador-level diplomatic relationships between France and Burma were established in 1948, soon after the Burmese nation became an independent republic on January 4, 1948, as Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu as its first Prime Minister.

The Burma Freedom and Democracy Act ( BFDA ), passed by Congress and signed by the President in 2003, includes a ban on all imports from Burma, a ban on the export of financial services to Burma, a freeze on the assets of certain Burmese financial institutions, and extended visa restrictions on Burmese officials.

# The New Light of Myanmar ()-English and Burmese language organ of SPDC

# MTV or MTV1-state-run, operated by Myanmar TV-broadcasts in Burmese language.

# MRTV-state-run, operated by Myanmar Radio TV-broadcasts in Burmese, Arakanese, Shan, Karen, Kachin, Kayah, Chin, Mon and English

Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, at Thanbyuzayat, Myanmar, has the graves of 3, 617 POWs ( 3, 149 Commonwealth and 621 Dutch ) who died on the Burmese portion of the line.

The term Rector ( Burmese: ပ ါေ မ ာ ကၡခ ်ဳ ပ ္) is used to refer to the highest official of universities in Myanmar.

In Myanmar ( Burma ), the Burmese Chinese refer to them as an-pao (), and South Korea's envelopes, which are white, not red, are called " sae bae don ".

* A Dictionary of the Wa Language with Burmese ( Myanmar ), Chinese, and English Glosses and Internet Database for Minority Languages of Burma ( Myanmar )

Burmese also uses a dot above to indicate the nasalized ending ( called " Myanmar Sign Anusvara " in Unicode ), called thay thay tin ()

Considered the father of the Burmese nation, Anawrahta turned a small principality in the dry zone of Upper Burma into the first Burmese Empire that formed the basis of modern-day Burma ( Myanmar ).

The Myanmar ( Burmese ) temple is also pagoda shaped and is reminiscent of Bagan.

* Burmese English, the dialect of English spoken in Myanmar

The Union of Myanmar ( the official name of Burma ) has regularly conducted limited low-intensity military campaigns against the independence movement of the Karen people in an area of southeast Burma ( roughly corresponding to a Burmese administrative region called the Kayin State ), which has actively pursued independence since January 1949.

( Although the constitution officially recognizes the English name of the language as the Myanmar language, most English speakers continue to refer to the language as Burmese.

* Myanmar National League, a Burmese professional football league

He also commanded the Second Burmese War in 1852, resulting in the capture of parts of Myanmar.

In 1996, in response to a " Visit Myanmar " campaign by the military regime, the Burmese opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for a tourism boycott.

" He has also expressed support for Tibetan refugees fighting for freedom against China, and Burmese rebel groups fighting against the military government in Myanmar.

He also claims that the several islands in the Andaman Sea, including the Coco Islands, which belong to Myanmar, were gifted by the former Prime Minister of India Nehru to the Burmese, rather than part of the original territory gained at Independence.

As with many other states in Myanmar, which have ethnic minority populations, Kayah state has its own fair share of alleged human rights abuses by the Burmese military junta and the Burmese armed forces.