A STUDY OF BURMESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE USED IN SAMUT SAKHON PROVINCE

Abstract

          This research article purposes were 1) to study Burmese Language Spoken in Samut Sakhon Province 2) to study the code mixing of Thai-English in Burmese Language of Samut Sakhon Province 3) to study Culture of Myanmar in Samut Sakhon Province. The methodology was qualitative research through the main data collection, research works and interviewing from 15 Myanmar Informants. The samples were selected by purposive sampling and divided into three age group: young age group 16-30 years, middle age group 31 - 45 years and old age group 46-60 years by five informants were selected from each of the three age group and analyzed by descriptive linguistics and percentage. The result of this research revealed that Burmese language comprise of 33 consonant phonemes namely; / b, p, ph, d, t, th, g, k, kh, ʔ, j, c, ch, θ, z, s, sh, ʃ, h, m, m̥, n, n̥, ɲ, ɲ̥, ŋ, ŋ̥, l, l̥, w, w̥, y, a / and Burmese Language has totally 22 vowel phonemes there are consists of 7 normal vowel phonemes namely; /a, i, u, e, ɛ, o, ɔ /; 7 Nasal vowel phonemes for example; / iñ, eñ, añ, aiñ, uñ, oñ, ɔñ /and 8 stop vowel phonemes namely; /iˀ, eˀ, ɛˀ, aˀ, aiˀ[aIˀ], uˀ, oˀ, ɔˀ/, there are four tone phonemes namely; level tone, mid falling, high falling and stop tone. And the code mixing of Thai-English in Burmese language were found 6 kinds, such as Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Preposition and Exclamation. Which the young age group was 16-30 years old, who used the code mixing words of Thai-English in Burmese more than other group. As for the cultures are four necessities namely; food, beauty and clothing, matrimony, and Buddhist activities.