Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
35
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Indonesia
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Tamil Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
624
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2423
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
terima kasih
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
sila
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
maaf
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Wu
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
30,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Musi
Yue
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
2410
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
175.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
98.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa melayu
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
malais
chinois
German Name
Malaiisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Han
Origin
c. 683 AD
1250 BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Standard Chinese
Language Position
541
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ms
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
zho
ISO 639 2/B
may
chi
ISO 639 3
zsm
zho
ISO 639 6
may
zho
Glottocode
stan1306
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating