Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
India
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Indonesian Language
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hindi.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
sila
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
maaf
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
malais
  
hindi
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Standard Hindi
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Malaysian and Hindi 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 Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Hindi language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Hindi Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian Alphabets and Hindi 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 Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.