Rakhine language

<p>Rakhine , also known as Arakanese, is a <a href="/facts/Tibeto-Burman_languages/H7kY9J5E">Tibeto-Burman</a> language spoken in western Myanmar, primarily in the <a href="/facts/Rakhine_State/MJ7PAbBI">Rakhine State</a>, and parts of south-eastern Bangladesh. Closely related to <a href="/facts/Burmese_language/1gpcvawX">Burmese</a>, the language is spoken by the <a href="/facts/Rakhine_people/6kh6mAf7">Rakhine</a> and <a href="/facts/Marma_people/w6sruEmy">Marma</a> peoples; it is estimated to have around one million native speakers and it is spoken as a <a href="/facts/Second_language/aUqAzeNK">second language</a> by a further million.
</p><p>Though Arakanese has some similarity with standard Burmese, Burmese speakers find it difficult to communicate with Arakanese speakers. Thus, it is often considered to be a dialect or <a href="/facts/Variety_(linguistics)/QyllMQha">variety</a> of Burmese. As there are no universally accepted <a href="/facts/Language_or_dialect/gJ7uQQoj">criteria for distinguishing</a> a language from a dialect, scholars and other interested parties often disagree about the linguistic, historical and social status of Arakanese. There are three dialects of Arakanese: <a href="/facts/Sittwe/8HGFc1Dl">Sittwe</a>–<a href="/facts/Marma_people/w6sruEmy">Marma</a> (about two thirds of speakers), <a href="/facts/Ramree_dialect/F2USMnDX">Ramree</a>, and <a href="/facts/Thandwe/SuMD2ela">Thandwe</a>. 
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Rakhine language