Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Indonesia
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Thailand
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Tamil Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2413
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
Moi
Thank You
terima kasih
Kiitos
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Selamat Malam
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
Hyvää huomenta
Please
sila
haluta
Sorry
maaf
Anteeksi
Bye
Selamat tinggal
Heippa
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Finland
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Rauma
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
30,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Musi
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2421
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
175.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa melayu
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Suomi
French Name
malais
finnois
German Name
Malaiisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
ethnic Finns
Origin
c. 683 AD
1543
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
standard Finnish
Language Position
5422
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ms
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
fin
ISO 639 2/B
may
fin
ISO 639 3
zsm
fin
ISO 639 6
may
fin
Glottocode
stan1306
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic