Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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.
  
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Indonesian Language
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
سلام
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
sila
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
maaf
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
malais
  
persan
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Persian people
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic
  
Malaysian and Persian Speaking population
Malaysian and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malaysian and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Malaysian and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Malaysian vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Malaysian and Persian Language Codes
Malaysian and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Malaysian and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.