Burmese Character Frequency Analysis

  • I have collected a handful of articles on Myanmar Wikipedia and run a program to sort out the frequency of Burmese characters.
  • I found that the consonants "က" and "င" have the most frequency of usage with 4.14% and 4.11% respectively, while "ဈ" and "ဎ" are the least with 0.01% and 0.00% respectively.
  • It is also seen that " ်" and "း are the most used non-consonants with 12.36% and 6.01% of usage respectively.
်: 32169        12.36%
း: 15642        6.01%
ာ: 15024        5.77%
ု: 12196        4.69%
က: 10782        4.14%
င: 10703        4.11%
ေ: 10505        4.04%
မ: 9697         3.73%
ိ: 9401         3.61%
တ: 8846         3.40%
န: 8812         3.39%
ပ: 7985         3.07%
သ: 7390         2.84%
ြ: 7221         2.77%
ရ: 6814         2.62%
စ: 6123         2.35%
့: 5400         2.08%
အ: 5331         2.05%
ှ: 5170         1.99%
လ: 4862         1.87%
ခ: 4795         1.84%
ျ: 4719         1.81%
ည: 4678         1.80%
ွ: 4542         1.75%
ီ: 3356         1.29%
ံ: 2661         1.02%
။: 2172         0.83%
ဖ: 2168         0.83%
ဆ: 2090         0.80%
ူ: 2034         0.78%
ယ: 2015         0.77%
ဲ: 1988         0.76%
ထ: 1764         0.68%
ဝ: 1692         0.65%
္: 1674         0.64%
ါ: 1602         0.62%
၁: 1448         0.56%
ဒ: 1304         0.50%
၊: 1268         0.49%
ဘ: 1108         0.43%
ဗ: 1004         0.39%
၉: 887        0.34%
၂: 833        0.32%
ဂ: 690        0.27%
ဟ: 670        0.26%
၀: 628        0.24%
၏: 616        0.24%
ဦ: 547        0.21%
၄: 480        0.18%
၈: 454        0.17%
၅: 427        0.16%
၃: 425        0.16%
၇: 391        0.15%
၆: 356        0.14%
ဌ: 344        0.13%
ဇ: 327        0.13%
ဓ: 317        0.12%
၍: 304        0.12%
ဉ: 257        0.10%
ဏ: 246        0.09%
၌: 199        0.08%
ဥ: 182        0.07%
ဤ: 105        0.04%
ဋ: 99         0.04%
ဧ: 58         0.02%
၎: 49         0.02%
ဩ: 43         0.02%
ဍ: 43         0.02%
ဿ: 40         0.02%
ဠ: 22         0.01%
ဃ: 19         0.01%
ဈ: 15         0.01%
ဎ: 3        0.00%
ဣ: 3        0.00%

Consonants:
က: 10782        4.14%
င: 10703        4.11%
မ: 9697         3.73%
တ: 8846         3.40%
န: 8812         3.39%
ပ: 7985         3.07%
သ: 7390         2.84%
ရ: 6814         2.62%
စ: 6123         2.35%
အ: 5331         2.05%
လ: 4862         1.87%
ခ: 4795         1.84%
ည: 4678         1.80%
ဖ: 2168         0.83%
ဆ: 2090         0.80%
ယ: 2015         0.77%
ထ: 1764         0.68%
ဝ: 1692         0.65%
ဒ: 1304         0.50%
ဘ: 1108         0.43%
ဗ: 1004         0.39%
ဂ: 690        0.27%
ဟ: 670        0.26%
ဌ: 344        0.13%
ဇ: 327        0.13%
ဓ: 317        0.12%
ဉ: 257        0.10%
ဏ: 246        0.09%
ဋ: 99         0.04%
ဍ: 43         0.02%
ဠ: 22         0.01%
ဃ: 19         0.01%
ဈ: 15         0.01%
ဎ: 3        0.00%