Kaba Ma Kyei

The National Anthem^[1] (နိုင်ငံတော်သီချင်း; lit. 'State Song') is the national anthem of Myanmar. The song and lyrics were made by Saya Tin with help from a Burmese nationalist group called Thakins. It is made up of two parts. The first half is a traditional Burmese part. The second half is a Western-style orchestra part. Because of the second half, the "National Anthem" is commonly known as "Kaba Ma Kyei" (ကမ္ဘာမကျေ / ကမ္ဘာမကြေ, [ɡəbà mə t͡ɕè]; lit. 'Till the End of the World').^[2][3]

ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်သီချင်း

English: National Anthem of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
National anthem of Myanmar
Lyrics	YMB Saya Tin and Thakins[a] (1930) U Sein Mya Maung (1947)
Music	YMB 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)

Lyrics

Words of the song in Burmese[4]	Words of the song using the Latin alphabet	Pronunciation of these words using the IPA	Translation of these words into English[5]
တရားမျှတ လွတ်လပ်ခြင်းနဲ့မသွေ၊ တို့ပြည်၊ တို့မြေ၊ များလူခပ်သိမ်း၊ ငြိမ်းချမ်းစေဖို့၊ ခွင့်တူညီမျှ၊ ဝါဒဖြူစင်တဲ့ပြည်၊ တို့ပြည်၊ တို့မြေ၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုအမွေ၊ အမြဲတည်တံ့စေ၊ အဓိဋ္ဌာန်ပြုပေ၊ ထိန်းသိမ်းစို့လေ 𝄆 ကမ္ဘာမကျေ၊ မြန်မာပြည်၊ တို့ဘိုးဘွား အမွေစစ်မို့ ချစ်မြတ်နိုးပေ။ 𝄇 ပြည်ထောင်စုကို အသက်ပေးလို့ တို့ကာကွယ်မလေ၊ ဒါတို့ပြည် ဒါတို့မြေ တို့ပိုင်နက်မြေ။ တို့ပြည် တို့မြေ အကျိုးကို ညီညာစွာတို့တစ်တွေ ထမ်းဆောင်ပါစို့လေ တို့တာဝန်ပေ အဖိုးတန်မြေ။	Tăyá hmyạ tạ lut lap chíng nệ mă đwè Dọ pyè dọ myè Myá lù khap đém nyém jám zè bọ Khwịng tù nyì hmyạ wàdạ phyù sìng dẹ pyè Dọ pyè dọ myè Pyì dồng zụ ămwè ămyé tì dạm zè Ădetthàn pyụ bè thén đém zọ lè. 𝄆 Găbà mă cè Myămà pyè Dọ bó bwá ămwè sic mọ chic myat nó bè 𝄇 Pyì dồng zụ gò ăđêk pé lọ dọ kà gwề mălè Dà dọ pyè dà dọ myè dọ pằng nêk myè Dọ pyè dọ myè ăcó gò nyì nyà zwà dọ dădwè Thám xồng bà zọ lè dọ tà wùn bè ăphó tàn myè!	[tɪ.já m̥ja̰.ta̰ lʊʔ.laʔ t͡ɕʰɪ́ŋ nɛ̰ mə t̪wè ǀ] [do̰ pjè ǀ do̰ mjè ǁ] [mjá lù kʰaʔ.t̪éɪ̯ŋ ɲéɪ̯ɰ̃.d͡ʑán zè βo̰ ǀ] [kʰwɪ̰ŋ tù.ɲì m̥ja̰ ǀ wà.da̰ (ǀ) pʰjù.sɪ̀ŋ dḛ pjè ǀ] [do̰ pjè ǀ do̰ mjè ǁ] [pjì.dàʊ̯ŋ.zṵ ʔə.mwè ʔ(ə.)mjɛ́ tì.da̰ŋ zè] [ʔ(ə.)deɪ̯ʔ.tʰàn pjṵ βè ǀ tʰéɪ̯ŋ.t̪éɪ̯ŋ zo̰ lè ǁ] 𝄆 [ɡ(ə.)βà mə t͡ɕè ǀ mjə.mà pjè ǀ] [do̰ βó.bwá (ʔə.)mwè sɪʔ mo̰ t͡ɕʰɪʔ mjaʔ nó βè ǁ] 𝄇 [pjì.dàʊ̯ŋ.zṵ ɡò ʔ(ə.)t̪ɛʔ pé lo̰ do̰ kà ɡwɛ̀ m(ə.)lè ǀ] [dà do̰ pjè dà do̰ mjè do̰ pàɪ̯ŋ.nɛʔ mjè ǀ] [do̰ pjè ǀ do̰ mjè ǀ ʔ(ə.)t͡ɕó ɡò ǀ ɲì.ɲà zwà do̰ d(ə.)dwè ǀ] [tʰán sʰàʊ̯ŋ bà zo̰ lè ǀ do̰ tà.wʊ̀ŋ bè ʔ(ə.)pʰó.tàn mjè ǁ]	Accompanied with justice and freedom; our nation, our motherland. To bring peace to all people; the nation having equal right and pure policy, our nation, our motherland. Let us preserve with vow for perpetuity of our heritage of the Union. 𝄆 As long as the world exists, we love Myanmar, the true heritage of our ancestors. 𝄇 We shall safeguard the Union by sacrificing our lives. This is our nation, our motherland and our own land. Let us serve unitedly for the interest of our nation, our motherland. That is our duty for the precious land.

Notes

1. including Thakin Ba Thaung, Thakin Thein Maung, Thakin Hla Baw, Thakin Tha Do, Thakin On Pe, Thakin Kyaw Tun Sein and Thakin Po Ni