Talk:Myanmar

Myanmar /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar

Global edit find Pagan replace Bagan. WaTaAng (talk) 19:35, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

File:X mark.svg Not done Both terms exist and have their own Wikipages: Bagan and Pagan Kingdom. Can be done only on a case-by-case basis after a careful read. Rasnaboy (talk) 05:18, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Kingdom of Ava missing under 'Formation'

The Kingdom of Ava is missing in the history section between Pagan and Taungoo Era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ava 77.187.165.0 (talk) 02:44, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

File:X mark.svg Not done,Please provide a source UnsungHistory (Questions?) (Did I mess up?) 20:49, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Rhoticity of English pronunciation of "Myanmar"/"Burma"

The "Etymology" section would benefit from a reference to the article Rhoticity in English

Please change "non-rhotic variety of English" to "non-rhotic variety of English" Troglodv (talk) 22:27, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

File:Yes check.svg Done Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 05:46, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate it! Troglodv (talk) 20:50, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Rohingya genocide

I noticed that the history section largely jumps from 2016 to 2020 without mentioning the Rohingya persecution in 2017, which seems a notable event that got a lot of international attention, at a minimum resulted in mass migration, etc. Is there a reason it wouldn't be appropriate to mention here? -KaJunl (talk) 08:32, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Further comment: I do see that the topic is presented within Government and politics> Human rights and internal conflicts> Genocide allegations and crimes against Rohingya people.

Given the international attention, demographic changes to the country, refugee crisis, etc., I am not sure it doesn't belong in "history" too.

However, even within the aforementioned section, the "2013 onwards" seems to have minimal commentary on the 2016-2017 period. At the beginning of the genocide allegations section, there is a "see also" link to "2016–17 Rohingya persecution in Myanmar" (which is not the current name of the linked article - I'd think we should link to the current name regardless rather than engaging in a separate debate) but those events aren't really mentioned much in the "2013 onwards" section of this article.

I think there could be some improvement here. -KaJunl (talk) 08:46, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

@KaJunl I fully agree with everything said here. The genocide of the Rohingya is far too notable and significant to be confined to only one small section of this article. I also noticed that the topic of Rohingya refugees is mentioned in Demographics> Ethnic groups, but it had no word of refugees past 1991. To rectify this, I added this sentence: "Since August 2017, an estimated 23,000-43,700 Rohingya have been killed in the ongoing Rohingya genocide, and another 730,000 have fled to Bangladesh.", with three added sources. (Hopefully it doesn't get reverted by some genocide denier, ugh.) Regarding your concern about the "see also" link, it appears as though someone thankfully changed it to "Rohingya genocide" to match the page title (unless you're the one who did that, in which case nice!!) Thank you for pointing all this out, by the way - it's really important stuff. Iamextremelygayokay (talk) 11:39, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 April 2025

change myanmar to myanmmar 111.65.46.199 (talk) 12:15, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

File:X mark.svg Not done: CMD (talk) 12:19, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

bronze age

Residents in 1500 BCE were "turning copper into bronze, growing rice and domesticating poultry and pigs; they were among the first people in the world to do so." Does the writer mean that all those activities, even domesticating animals and growing rice, didn't exist elsewhere in the world before 1500 BCE? This seems improbable.

Perhaps the writer means that these activities had gone on for a long time before that date. Please clarify. Billfalls (talk) 17:18, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

The statement is well supported by the cited source. The author doesn't necessarily mean that no other people were growing rice and domesticating animals, just that the Burmese were amongst the early people to do so. The quote from the text: As early as thirty five hundred years ago--the time of the Old Kingdom in Egypt--people across the region were already turning copper into bronze, growing rice and domesticating chickens and pigs, and they were among the first people in the world to do so. I'll modify the text a bit since this is too closely paraphrased but the statement is supported by the citation. RegentsPark (comment) 20:56, 12 April 2025 (UTC)