Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Thailand
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
Thank You
شكرا
terima kasih
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
Apa khabar?
Good Night
تصبح على خير
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
مساء الخير
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
صباح الخير
Selamat pagi
Bye
وداعا
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
أحبك
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
اعذرني
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Sudan
Indonesia
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Indonesia
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Not Available
German Name
Arabisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Arabs
Not Available
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Not Available
Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
stan1306
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Arabic 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 Arabic and Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Malaysian language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Arabic vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic 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 Arabic and Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.