Traditional Burmese calendar

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The traditional Burmese calendar is a lunisolar calendar based on both the phases of the moon and the motion of the sun. Within each month of the Burmese calendar, a major festival, often Burmese Buddhist in nature, is held. Despite its religious and cultural importance, the traditional calendar has been largely abandoned, particularly in major urban areas, in favour of the Gregorian calendar. Many newspapers continue to utilise traditional month names, but purely in ceremonial fashion.

There are twelve months in the Burmese calendar:

  1. Tagu (တခူး)
  2. Kason (ကဆုံ)
  3. Nayone (နရုံ)
  4. Waso (ဝာဆုိ)
  5. Wagaung (ဝာခောင္‌)
  6. Tawthalin (တော္‌သလင္‌း)
  7. Thadingyut (သီတင္‌းက္ယ္ဝတ္‌)
  8. Tazaungmone (တဆောင္‌းမုန္‌)
  9. Nataw (နတော္‌)
  10. Pyatho (ပ္ရာသုိ)
  11. Tabodwe (တပုိ့တ္ဝဲ)
  12. Tabaung (တပောင္‌း)

Every two or three years, an extra month lasting thirty days is added to the calendar to maintain its connection to the seasons.

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