Countries
Wales
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Wales
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
Thailand
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
- 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
English Language
Indonesian Language
Derived From
British Language
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Helô
Hai
Thank You
Diolch
terima kasih
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
Apa khabar?
Good Night
Nos da
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
Bore da
Selamat pagi
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
sila
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
maaf
Bye
Hwyl
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Argentina
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
38,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
Pekal
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
700,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
Musi
Where They Speak
Powys
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
700,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
824
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million175.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %1.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.40 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million98.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
gallois
malais
German Name
Kymrisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Welsh people
Malaysian people
Origin
9th Century
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Celtic
-
Branch
Brythonic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Welsh
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
3154
1
120
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Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
cy
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cym
msa
ISO 639 2/B
wel
may
ISO 639 3
cym
zsm
ISO 639 6
cym
may
Glottocode
wels1247
stan1306
Linguasphere
50-ABA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative