Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
34
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
Russia
Second Language
Indonesia
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Thailand
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Tamil Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
terima kasih
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
sila
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
maaf
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Olonets
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Olonets
How Many People Speak
30,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Musi
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2413
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.16 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
Русский
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Russki
French Name
malais
russe
German Name
Malaiisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Russians
Origin
c. 683 AD
1000 AD
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Standard Russian
Language Position
547
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ms
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
rus
ISO 639 2/B
may
rus
ISO 639 3
zsm
rus
ISO 639 6
may
rus
Glottocode
stan1306
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic