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Malaysian vs Russian


Russian vs Malaysian


Countries

Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore   
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   

Total No. Of Countries
3   
12
4   
11

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

Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
26   
8
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
10   
7

How Many Consonants
24   
14
21   
11

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks   
10
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bengkulu   
Doukhobor Russian   

Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra   
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   

How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00   
25
30,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Pekal   
Olonets   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
Olonets   

How Many People Speak
30,000.00   
40
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Musi   
Novgorod   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
Novgorod   

How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00   
11
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
24   
20
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
175.00 million   
10
276.00 million   
6

Speaking Population
1.16 %   
14
2.33 %   
9

Native Speakers
77.00 million   
12
166.00 million   
8

Second Language Speakers
98.00 million   
8
110.00 million   
7

Native Name
Bahasa melayu   
Русский   

Alternative Names
Not Available   
Russki   

French Name
malais   
russe   

German Name
Malaiisch   
Russisch   

Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]   
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
Russians   

History

Origin
c. 683 AD   
1000 AD   

Language Family
Austronesian Family   
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Slavic   

Branch
Not Available   
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
54   
39
7   
7

Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language   
Signed Russian   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
stan1306   
russ1263   

Linguasphere
No data available   
53-AAA-ea   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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Malaysian and Russian Language History

Comparison of Malaysian vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Malaysian and Russian language. History of Malaysian language states that this language originated in c. 683 AD whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. 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 Russian Language History.

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Malaysian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Russian language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Malaysian vs Russian Difficulty

The Malaysian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.

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