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
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
Old German Language
Derived From
Tamil Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2652
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
616
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2436
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
terima kasih
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
sila
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
maaf
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Not present
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
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How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Not present
Where They Speak
Indonesia
-
How Many People Speak
30,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Musi
Not present
Where They Speak
Indonesia
-
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
240
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
175.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million14.10 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
98.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa melayu
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
malais
sanskrit
German Name
Malaiisch
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
c. 683 AD
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Sanskrit
Language Position
5423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ms
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
san
ISO 639 2/B
may
san
ISO 639 3
zsm
san
ISO 639 6
may
san
Glottocode
stan1306
sans1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic