Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
India
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
India
Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
Bengali Language
Derived From
Tamil Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2647
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2431
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
terima kasih
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
sila
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
maaf
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Kharwa
Where They Speak
Indonesia
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
30,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Musi
Surati
Where They Speak
Indonesia
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How Many People Speak
3,100,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
248
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
175.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million50.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
98.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa melayu
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
malais
goudjrati
German Name
Malaiisch
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Gujaratis
Origin
c. 683 AD
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Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
5423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ms
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
guj
ISO 639 2/B
may
guj
ISO 639 3
zsm
guj
ISO 639 6
may
guj
Glottocode
stan1306
guja1252
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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