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Malaysian and Cantonese

1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
32
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Malaysia
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Thailand
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
  • 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.
1.9 Similar To
Indonesian Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Tamil Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2628
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
68
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2420
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
610
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks88 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Hai
您好
3.2 Thank You
terima kasih
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
Apa khabar?
你好吗?
3.4 Good Night
Selamat Malam
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
Selamat Petang
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
Selamat pagi
早上好
3.8 Please
sila
3.9 Sorry
maaf
遗憾
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
再见
3.11 I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00NA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Pekal
Xiguan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Musi
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
Hong Kong
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00NA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
243
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
175.00 million60.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
1.16 %16.00 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million52.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
98.00 millionNA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Bahasa melayu
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
malais
Not Available
5.3.5 German Name
Malaiisch
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 683 AD
17th century
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
54NA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ms
No data available
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
msa
Not Available
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
may
Not Available
7.3 ISO 639 3
zsm
No data available
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
stan1306
cant1236
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available

Malaysian and Cantonese Alphabets

Malaysian and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malaysian and Cantonese. In Malaysian Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Malaysian and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malaysian and Cantonese languages. The Malaysian phonology consist Malaysian vowels and Malaysian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Malaysian greetings vs Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malaysian and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Malaysian and Cantonese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Malaysian and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Malaysian and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malaysian are spoken in different Malaysian Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malaysian vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malaysian dialects include: Bengkulu, Pekal. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Malaysian and Cantonese Speaking population

Malaysian and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malaysian and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Malaysian and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Malaysian and Cantonese on Malaysian vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malaysian and Cantonese Language Codes

Malaysian and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Malaysian and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.