Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
Indonesian Language
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
sila
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
maaf
  
sorry
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
malais
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Standard Dutch
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic
  
Malaysian and Dutch Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Malaysian and Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Dutch language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Dutch Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian Alphabets and Dutch Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Malaysian and Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.