1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Indonesia
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Thailand
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Indonesian Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Tamil Language
Not Available
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
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
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Apa khabar?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
Selamat Malam
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
Selamat Petang
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,100,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
175.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
98.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Bahasa melayu
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
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 Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating