Malaysian vs Chinese
Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Malaysia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Indonesia
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
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Derived From
Tamil Language
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Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
terima kasih
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
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French Name
malais
chinois
German Name
Malaiisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
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Ethnicity
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Han
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
stan1306
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating
Malaysian and Chinese Language History
Comparison of Malaysian vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Malaysian and Chinese language. History of Malaysian language states that this language originated in c. 683 AD whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Malaysian and Chinese Language History.
Malaysian and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Chinese language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Chinese Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.