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Malaysian and Japanese

Countries

Countries

Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

31
0 46
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National Language

Malaysia
Japan

Second Language

Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Thailand
Palau

Regulated By

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Indonesian Language
Korean Language

Derived From

Tamil Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2699
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2414
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hai
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

terima kasih
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Apa khabar?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Selamat Malam
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Selamat Petang
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Selamat tengah hari
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Selamat pagi
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

sila
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

maaf
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Selamat tinggal
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Saya sayang kamu
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Maafkan saya
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bengkulu
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

1,600,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Pekal
Hakata

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

30,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Musi
Kansai

Where They Speak

Indonesia
kansai

How Many People Speak

3,100,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2431
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

175.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.16 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

77.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

98.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Bahasa melayu
日本語

Alternative Names

Bahasa Malaysia
Nihongo

French Name

malais
japonais

German Name

Malaiisch
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Malaysian people
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

c. 683 AD
1185

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Malay
Japanese

Language Position

548
1 120
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Signed Forms

Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ms
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

msa
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

may
jpn

ISO 639 3

zsm
jpn

ISO 639 6

may
jpn

Glottocode

stan1306
nucl1643

Linguasphere

No data available
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Malaysian and Japanese Alphabets

Malaysian and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malaysian and Japanese. In Malaysian Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Malaysian and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malaysian and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malaysian and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Malaysian and Japanese Speaking population

Malaysian and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malaysian and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Malaysian and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Malaysian vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malaysian and Japanese Language Codes

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