Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
- 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
Chinese Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
Hai
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
晚安
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
请
  
sila
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
maaf
  
Bye
再见
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Not Available
  
French Name
Not Available
  
malais
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
17th century
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Malaysian language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.