Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
National Language
Germany
Malaysia
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Thailand
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Thank You
Danke
terima kasih
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Apa khabar?
Good Night
gute Nacht
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
guten Abend
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
guten Morgen
Selamat pagi
Bye
Tschüs
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Pekal
Where They Speak
Germany
Indonesia
Dialect 3
Texas German
Musi
Where They Speak
Texas
Indonesia
Native Name
Deutsch
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Not Available
French Name
allemand
malais
German Name
Deutsch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Germans
Not Available
Origin
6th Century AD
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
Branch
Western
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Signed Forms
Signed German
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
stan1306
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
German 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 German and Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Malaysian language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common German Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Malaysian Difficulty
The German vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.