စကား
Burmese
Etymology
The second syllable is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ka (“word; speech; language”); cognate with Tibetan བཀའ (bka').
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: ဇ'ဂါး
- IPA(key): /zəɡá/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ca.ka: • ALA-LC: cakāʺ • BGN/PCGN: zăga: • Okell: săkà
- Homophone: စံကား (camka:)
Noun
စကား • (ca.ka:) (classifier ခွန်း)
- language (system of communication using words or symbols)
- word
Synonyms
- ဘာသာ (bhasa)
- ဘာသာစကား (bhasaca.ka:)
Derived terms
- စကားဝှက် (ca.ka:hwak)
- ဒေသိယစကား (desi.ya.ca.ka:)
- ဘာသာစကား (bhasaca.ka:)