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Malaysian vs German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
3  
12

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

Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
6  
3

How Many Consonants
9  
1
24  
14

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
36 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
Hai  

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  

Please
bitte  
sila  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
maaf  

Bye
Tschüs  
Selamat tinggal  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
Saya sayang kamu  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
Maafkan saya  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Bengkulu  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
1,600,000.00  
25

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Pekal  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
30,000.00  
40

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Musi  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
3,100,000.00  
11

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
24  
20

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
175.00 million  
10

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
1.16 %  
14

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
77.00 million  
12

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
98.00 million  
8

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  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
c. 683 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Austronesian Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Not Available  

Branch
Western  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

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  

Language Position
9  
9
54  
39

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Malaysian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
ms  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
msa  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
may  

ISO 639 3
deu  
zsm  

ISO 639 6
deus  
Not Available  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
stan1306  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative  

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German and Malaysian Language History

Comparison of German vs Malaysian language history gives us differences between origin of German and Malaysian language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD whereas history of Malaysian language states that this language originated in c. 683 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on German and Malaysian Language History.

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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.

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