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Countries

Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore

Total No. Of Countries
3 12

National Language
Malaysia

Second Language
Indonesia

Speaking Continents
Asia

Minority Language
Thailand

Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka

Interesting Facts
  • One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
  • Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.

Similar To
Indonesian Language

Derived From
Tamil Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
26 8

Phonology

How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
24 14

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks 13

Greetings

Hello
Hai

Thank You
terima kasih

How Are You?
Apa khabar?

Good Night
Selamat Malam

Good Evening
Selamat Petang

Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari

Good Morning
Selamat pagi

Please
sila

Sorry
maaf

Bye
Selamat tinggal

I Love You
Saya sayang kamu

Excuse Me
Maafkan saya

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bengkulu

Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra

How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00 56

Dialect 2
Pekal

Where They Speak
Indonesia

How Many People Speak
30,000.00 86

Dialect 3
Musi

Where They Speak
Indonesia

How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00 43

Total No. Of Dialects
24 20

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
175.00 million 10

Speaking Population
1.16 % 15

Native Speakers
77.00 million 12

Second Language Speakers
98.00 million 8

Native Name
Bahasa melayu

Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia

French Name
malais

German Name
Malaiisch

Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]

Ethnicity
Malaysian people

History

Origin
c. 683 AD

Language Family
Austronesian Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay

Language Position
54 49

Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
ms

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
msa

ISO 639 2/B
may

ISO 639 3
zsm

ISO 639 6
may

Glottocode
stan1306

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative

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Know Alphabets in Malaysian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Malaysian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Malaysian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Malaysian. Malaysian phonology gives Malaysian vowels and Malaysian consonants. There are 6 vowels and 24 consonants in Malaysian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Malaysian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Malaysian language is given in detail in this section.

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All Malaysian countries

Want to explore all Malaysian countries? About Malaysian language serves you with all Malaysian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Malaysian as official language are called as Malaysian countries.

  • Countries that use Malaysian as their National Language are: Malaysia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Malaysian as second language are: Indonesia.

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Learn Malaysian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Malaysian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Malaysian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Malaysian language.Learn Malaysian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Hai
  • Thank you: terima kasih
  • Good Morning: Selamat pagi
  • Good Evening: Selamat Petang
  • Good Afternoon: Selamat tengah hari

All Malaysian Language Codes

Get to know all Malaysian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Malaysian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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