1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Indonesia
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Thailand
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Indonesian Language
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Tamil Language
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Selamat Petang
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Pekal
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
175.00 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
98.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology