Countries
Philippines
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Philippines
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Philippines
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Interesting Facts
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  
- 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
Hiligaynon Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Island of Cebu
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
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Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hoy
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Salamat
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Kumusta man ka?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Maayong Gabii
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Maayong Gabii
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Maayong Hapon
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Maayong Buntag
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Palihug
  
sila
  
Sorry
Ikasubo ko
  
maaf
  
Bye
Babay
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Gihigugma ko ikaw
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Ekskyus mi
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Boholano
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Bohol
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Southern Kana
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
southern Leyte
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
North Kana
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
Not Available
  
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
14.50 million
  
19
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Visayan
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
  
Not Available
  
French Name
cebuano
  
malais
  
German Name
Cebuano
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Cebuano people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
16th century
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian 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 Cebuano
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data Available
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ceb
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
ceb
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
ceb
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cebu1242
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Cebuano 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 Cebuano and Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cebuano and Malaysian language. Cebuano word for "Hello" is Hoy or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Cebuano Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cebuano vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Cebuano vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cebuano 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 Cebuano and Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cebuano and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cebuano is 3 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.