Kaba Ma Kyei

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Nuingngamtausihkyang:
English: National Anthem of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်သီချင်း
National anthem of Myanmar
Lyrics
MusicYMB Saya Tin, 1930
Published
  • 1930 (as Dobama Song)
  • 1947 (as National Anthem)
Adopted
  • 27 June 1936 (by the second conference of Dobama Asiayon)
  • 1 August 1943 (by the State of Burma)
  • 22 September 1947 (by the Constituent Assembly of the Union of Burma)
Audio sample
second verse instrumental version by U.S. Navy Band

The National Anthem[1] (Burmese: နိုင်ငံတော်သီချင်း; MLCTS: Nuingngamtausihkyang:; Burmese pronunciation: [nàɪɴŋàɴtɔ̀θìtɕʰɪ́ɴ]; lit. 'State Song') is the national anthem of Myanmar. It consists of two parts; the first half is a traditional Burmese style section, before transitioning into the second half, a Western-style orchestra. Because of the second half, both the "National Anthem" and its predecessor "Dobama Song" are popularly known as "Kaba Ma Kyei" (Burmese: ကမ္ဘာမကျေ; MLCTS: Ka.bha ma. kye, Burmese pronunciation: [ka̰bà ma̰ tɕè]; lit. 'Till the End of the World').[2][3]

A long-standing tradition is that those who sing the national anthem bow at the end, as a show of respect for the nation.


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  1. ^ နိုင်ငံတော်သီချင်းဥပဒေ [The National Anthem Law] (law, 5(a)) (in Burmese and English). State Peace and Development Council. 2010.
  2. ^ ကိုသိမ်းမြင့် (24 June 2021). "နိုင်ငံတော်သီချင်း - ကမ္ဘာမကျေလား၊ ကမ္ဘာမကြေလား". BBC Burmese (in Burmese). BBC.
  3. ^ ဘိုဘို (28 May 2020). "(၂၁)ရာစု ပြည်ထောင်စုထိ ရိုက်ခတ်တဲ့ နှစ် ၉ဝ က တို့ဗမာဝါဒ" [Dobama-ism that even hits 21st century union]. BBC Burmese (in Burmese). BBC.