Kaba Ma Kyei

ကမ္ဘာမကျေ

English: Till the End of the World
Kaba Ma Kyei
National anthem of  Myanmar
Also known as	Kaba Ma Kyay
Lyrics	Saya Tin
Music	Saya Tin
Adopted	1947
Music sample
Kaba Ma Kyei (instrument)

"Kaba Ma Kyei" (Burmese: ကမ္ဘာမကျေ, pronounced [ɡəbà mə tɕè]; Till the End of the World) is the national anthem of Burma (Myanmar). The preamble of the anthem is in the traditional Burmese style, before transitioning into a Western-style orchestra.

The melody and lyrics were written by Saya Tin^[1], and adopted as the Burmese national anthem in 1947.

Burmese lyrics

Burmese lyrics[2]	IPA transcription	MLC transcription
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။	təjá m̥ja̰ ta̰ lʊʔ laʔ tɕʰíɴ nɛ̰ mə θwè do̰ pjè do̰ mjè mjá lù kʰaʔ θeíɴ ɲeíɴ dʑáɴ zè bo̰ seiʔ tù ɲì m̥ja̰ wàda̰ pʰju sɪ̀ɴ dḛ pjè do̰ pjè do̰ mjè pjì daʊ̀ɴ zṵ ʔəmwè ʔəmjé tì da̰ɴ zè ʔədeiʔtʰàɴ pjṵ bé tʰeín θeín zo̰ lè ɡəbà mətɕè mjəmà pjè do̰ bó bwá ʔəmwè siʔ mo̰ tɕʰiʔ mjaʔ nó bè pjì dàuɴ zṵ ɡò ʔəθeʔ pé lo̰ do̰ kà ɡwɛ̀ məlè dà do̰ pjè dà do̰ mjè do̰ pàiɴ dɛ̰ mjè do̰ pjè do̰ mjè ʔətɕó ɡò ɲì ɲà zwà do̰ dədwè tʰáɴ sʰàuɴ bà zo̰ lè do̰ tà wʊ̀ɴ bè ʔəpʰó tàɴ mjè	ta.ra: hmya. ta. lwat lap hkrang: nai. ma. swi tui. prany tui. mre mya: lu hkap sim: ngim: hkram: se hpo. cit tu nyi hmya. wada. hpyu sang dai. prany tui. prany tui. mre prany htaung cu. a mwi a.mrai: tany tam. se a.dhi.hta:n pru. pe htin: sim: sui. le kam.bha ma.kye / mran.ma prany / tui. bhui: bwa: a.mwe cac mui. hkyac mrat nui: pe // prany htaung su. kui a.sak pe: lui. tui. ka kwai ma.le / da tui. prany da tui. mre to. puing nak mre // tui. prany tui. mre a.kyui: kui nyi nya cwa tui. ta.twe htam: hsaung pa sui. le to. ta wan pe a. hpui: tan mre //

English translation

Literal

Singable

Until the world ends up shattering, long live Burma! We love our land because this is our real inheritance. Until the world ends up shattering, long live Burma! We love our land because this is our real inheritance. We will sacrifice our lives to protect our country. This is our nation, this is our land and it belongs to us. Being our nation and our land, let us do good causes to our nation in unity! And, this is our very duty to our invaluable land.

We shall love, forevermore Burma (Myanmar) the land of our fathers of yore! We shall love, forevermore Burma (Myanmar) the land of our fathers of yore! Giving our lives for our union we fight, This is our country, our land yours by right, We, for her the tasks responsibly shoulder, As we'll stand in duty to our precious land.

References

1. ^ "Kaba Ma Kyei" at nationalanthems.info
2. ^ Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2008) Chapter 13 State Flag, State Seal, National Anthem and the Capital. Article 439 (a). Page 176. (Burmese)

External links

• Szbszig - vocal version taken from Burmese Radio Programme ([1])
• Yadanabon - The information website about Burma features a page about the National Anthem, with a sound file taken from the "Myanmar Radio Main Programme" Interval stored in the Interval Signals Online website.
• Ga Ba Majay Ba Ma Pyay (MIDI file)
• Sheet music (from Embassy of Burma to Washington)