Countries
India
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
India
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Thailand
Regulated By
-
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5226
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
166
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3624
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Hai
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
terima kasih
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Apa khabar?
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Selamat pagi
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
sila
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
maaf
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Not present
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
-
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
140,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Pekal
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
140,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Musi
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
140,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
024
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
14.10 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %1.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
14.10 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
sanskrit
malais
German Name
Sanskrit
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Malaysian people
Origin
2000 B.C.
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
2354
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
msa
ISO 639 2/B
san
may
ISO 639 3
san
zsm
ISO 639 6
san
may
Glottocode
sans1269
stan1306
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative