Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
Hawaii
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Tamil Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2628
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2420
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
您好
Thank You
terima kasih
谢谢
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
你好吗?
Good Night
Selamat Malam
晚安
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
下午好
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
早上好
Please
sila
请
Sorry
maaf
遗憾
Bye
Selamat tinggal
再见
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
我爱你
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
原谅我
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Pekal
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
30,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Musi
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
243
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.16 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
malais
cantonais
German Name
Malaiisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Han Chinese
Origin
c. 683 AD
17th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
541
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ms
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
yue
ISO 639 2/B
may
yue
ISO 639 3
zsm
No data available
ISO 639 6
may
yue
Glottocode
stan1306
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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