Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
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.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Indonesian Language
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
Tere
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
sila
  
Palun
  
Sorry
maaf
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
0.95 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
malais
  
estonien
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Estonians
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Estonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Malaysian and Estonian 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 Estonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Estonian language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Estonian word for "Thank You" is aitäh. Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Estonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Estonian Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Estonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian Alphabets and Estonian 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 Estonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Estonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Estonian time required is 44 weeks.