Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Indonesian Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
sila
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
maaf
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Russki
  
French Name
malais
  
russe
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Russians
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic