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Countries

Countries

Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

333
0 46
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National Language

Malaysia
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Indonesia
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Thailand
South Africa

Regulated By

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Indonesian Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

Tamil Language
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2626
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2421
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

67
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hai
Hello

Thank You

terima kasih
Thank you

How Are You?

Apa khabar?
How are you?

Good Night

Selamat Malam
Good Night

Good Evening

Selamat Petang
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

Selamat tengah hari
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

Selamat pagi
Good Morning

Please

sila
Please

Sorry

maaf
Sorry

Bye

Selamat tinggal
Bye

I Love You

Saya sayang kamu
I love you

Excuse Me

Maafkan saya
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bengkulu
American English

Where They Speak

Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
United States of America

How Many People Speak

1,600,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Pekal
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

30,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Musi
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Indonesia
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

3,100,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

24188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

175.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.16 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

77.00 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

98.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Bahasa melayu
English

Alternative Names

Bahasa Malaysia
English

French Name

malais
anglais

German Name

Malaiisch
Englisch

Pronunciation

[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Malaysian people
English people

History

Origin

c. 683 AD
5th Century AD

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Malay
Standard English

Language Position

543
1 120
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Signed Forms

Malaysian Sign Language
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ms
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

msa
eng

ISO 639 2/B

may
eng

ISO 639 3

zsm
eng

ISO 639 6

may
engs

Glottocode

stan1306
stan1293

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Malaysian and English Alphabets

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

All Malaysian and English 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 Malaysian and English dialects. Various dialects of Malaysian and English language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malaysian are spoken in different Malaysian Speaking Countries whereas English Dialects are spoken in different English speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malaysian vs English Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malaysian dialects include: Bengkulu, Pekal. English dialects include: American English , Hiberno-English. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Malaysian and English Speaking population

Malaysian and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malaysian and English languages can be compared. The total count of Malaysian and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 Malaysian and English on Malaysian vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malaysian and English Language Codes

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