Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
China
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
China
Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
Uzbek Language
Derived From
Tamil Language
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2636
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2427
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
terima kasih
rakhmat
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
Selamat Malam
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
sila
birdam
Sorry
maaf
kachurung
Bye
Selamat tinggal
Khayr khosh
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Turpan
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
China
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Hotan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China
How Many People Speak
30,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Musi
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Indonesia
China
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
247
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.16 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
malais
ouïgour
German Name
Malaiisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Uyghur
Origin
c. 683 AD
11
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Uyghur
Language Position
5498
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ms
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
uig
ISO 639 2/B
may
uig
ISO 639 3
zsm
uig
ISO 639 6
may
uig
Glottocode
stan1306
uigh1240
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-