Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
Indonesia
Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Tamil Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2627
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
Halo
Thank You
terima kasih
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Selamat Malam
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
Sugeng énjing
Please
sila
matur nuwun
Sorry
maaf
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Selamat tinggal
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Pekal
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
30,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Musi
Arekan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2416
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.16 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
malais
javanais
German Name
Malaiisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
c. 683 AD
450 AD
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Javanese
Language Position
5411
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ms
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
jav
ISO 639 2/B
may
jav
ISO 639 3
zsm
jav
ISO 639 6
may
jav
Glottocode
stan1306
java1253
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative