Burmese is the official language of Myanmar and the everyday language for around 33 million speakers. In the United States the Burmese-speaking population is small but growing fast, particularly Karen, Karenni, and Rohingya refugees resettled across Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Buffalo, Houston, Atlanta, and the Twin Cities. The translation work we handle is overwhelmingly USCIS asylum documentation, medical intake for hospitals serving recent refugee populations, and school enrolment paperwork. Burmese uses its own script, which has distinctive rounded characters and writes left-to-right; the same script is used for the Pali language in Buddhist liturgical texts.