1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Malaysia
1.4 Second Language
Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Thailand
1.7 Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
1.9 Similar To
Indonesian Language
1.10 Derived From
Tamil 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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks
Rank: 10 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Hai
3.2 Thank You
terima kasih
3.3 How Are You?
Apa khabar?
3.4 Good Night
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
Selamat Petang
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
3.7 Good Morning
Selamat pagi
3.8 Please
sila
3.9 Sorry
maaf
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
3.11 I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Bengkulu
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
Rank: 25 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Pekal
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00
Rank: 40 (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Musi
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
Rank: 10 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
1.16 %
Rank: 14 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million
Rank: 12 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
Rank: 8 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Bahasa melayu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
malais
5.3.5 German Name
Malaiisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 683 AD
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ms
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
msa
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
may
7.3 ISO 639 3
zsm
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
stan1306
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative