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Japanese and Malaysian

Countries

Countries

Japan
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore

Total No. Of Countries

13
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Malaysia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Asia

Minority Language

Palau
Thailand

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka

Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • 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

Korean Language
Indonesian Language

Derived From

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Tamil Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9926
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1424
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

56
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Hai

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
terima kasih

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Apa khabar?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Selamat Malam

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Selamat Petang

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Selamat tengah hari

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Selamat pagi

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
sila

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
maaf

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Selamat tinggal

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Saya sayang kamu

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Maafkan saya

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Bengkulu

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Pekal

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Indonesia

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0030,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Musi

Where They Speak

kansai
Indonesia

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.003,100,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3124
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million175.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %1.16 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million77.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million98.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
Bahasa melayu

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Bahasa Malaysia

French Name

japonais
malais

German Name

Japanisch
Malaiisch

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Malaysian people

History

Origin

1185
c. 683 AD

Language Family

Japonic Family
Austronesian Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,

Standard Forms

Japanese
Pluricentric Standard Malay

Language Position

854
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Malaysian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
ms

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
msa

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
may

ISO 639 3

jpn
zsm

ISO 639 6

jpn
may

Glottocode

nucl1643
stan1306

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative

Japanese and Malaysian Alphabets

Japanese and Malaysian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Malaysian. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Malaysian Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Japanese and Malaysian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Malaysian languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Malaysian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Malaysian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Japanese and Malaysian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Japanese and Malaysian dialects. Various dialects of Japanese and Malaysian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Japanese are spoken in different Japanese Speaking Countries whereas Malaysian Dialects are spoken in different Malaysian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Japanese vs Malaysian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Japanese dialects include: Sanuki, Hakata. Malaysian dialects include: Bengkulu , Pekal. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Japanese and Malaysian Speaking population

Japanese and Malaysian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Malaysian languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Malaysian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Japanese and Malaysian on Japanese vs Malaysian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Malaysian Language Codes

Japanese and Malaysian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Japanese and Malaysian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.