Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
India
Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Thailand
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
Urdu
Derived From
Tamil Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2644
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
611
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2433
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
terima kasih
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
sila
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
maaf
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Pekal
Marwari
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
30,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Musi
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2421
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.16 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
malais
hindi
German Name
Malaiisch
Hindi
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Hindustani people
Origin
c. 683 AD
7th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Standard Hindi
Language Position
545
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ms
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
hin
ISO 639 2/B
may
hin
ISO 639 3
zsm
hin
ISO 639 6
may
hins
Glottocode
stan1306
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic