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Wiktionary:Burmese entry guidelines

Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken as a native language by around 32 million people and as a second language by an additional 10 million people. It is the official language of the Union of Myanmar. The ISO 639-1 code for Burmese is my. Wiktionary treats all forms of the language back to the 16th century as the modern language; anything older than that is considered Old Burmese, which has a separate code obr. The implementation of Burmese script in Unicode is discussed in detail in Unicode Technical Note 11, “Representing Myanmar in Unicode”. Unfortunately, much Burmese found on the Internet does not follow the current Unicode standards, in part because the first attempt at standardizing Burmese in Unicode was a failure and had to be scrapped and completely redone. Yet some Internet pages were written using that first attempt and are now noncompliant with the standard and often totally unreadable. Here at Wiktionary we follow the current standard. A Burmese entry should follow the same general principles as all other Wiktionary entries do, as outlined at Wiktionary:Entry layout. The most important sections are listed below.