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Malaysian vs Russian


Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
3  
12

National Language
Russia  
Malaysia  

Second Language
Afganistan  
Indonesia  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  
Thailand  

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka  

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  
Indonesian Language  

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  
Tamil Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
33  
15
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
6  
3

How Many Consonants
21  
11
24  
14

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
36 weeks  
13

Greetings

Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  
Hai  

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)  
terima kasih  

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  
Apa khabar?  

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  
Selamat Malam  

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  
Selamat Petang  

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  
Selamat tengah hari  

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  
Selamat pagi  

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  
sila  

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)  
maaf  

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)  
Selamat tinggal  

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  
Saya sayang kamu  

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)  
Maafkan saya  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian  
Bengkulu  

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

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

Dialect 2
Olonets  
Pekal  

Where They Speak
Olonets  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00  
2
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Novgorod  
Musi  

Where They Speak
Novgorod  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00  
2
3,100,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
24  
20

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million  
6
175.00 million  
10

Speaking Population
2.33 %  
9
1.16 %  
15

Native Speakers
166.00 million  
8
77.00 million  
12

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million  
7
98.00 million  
8

Native Name
Русский  
Bahasa melayu  

Alternative Names
Russki  
Bahasa Malaysia  

French Name
russe  
malais  

German Name
Russisch  
Malaiisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]  

Ethnicity
Russians  
Malaysian people  

History

Origin
1000 AD  
c. 683 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  
Austronesian Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
-  

Branch
Eastern  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,  

Standard Forms
Standard Russian  
Pluricentric Standard Malay  

Language Position
7  
7
54  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Russian  
Malaysian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ru  
ms  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus  
msa  

ISO 639 2/B
rus  
may  

ISO 639 3
rus  
zsm  

ISO 639 6
rus  
may  

Glottocode
russ1263  
stan1306  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative  

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Russian and Malaysian Language History

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

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

Russian vs Malaysian Difficulty

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

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