Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
National Language
Malaysia
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
Tamil Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Thank You
terima kasih
شكرا
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
Selamat Malam
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
مساء الخير
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
صباح الخير
Bye
Selamat tinggal
وداعا
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
أحبك
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
اعذرني
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Sudan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Cyprus, Levant
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Not Available
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
German Name
Malaiisch
Arabisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
Not Available
Arabs
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Semitic
Branch
Not Available
North Arabic
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Modern Standard Arabic
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Arabic
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1306
arab1395
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic
Malaysian and Arabic Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Malaysian and Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Arabic language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Arabic Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian Alphabets and Arabic Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Malaysian and Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.