Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
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 Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
  
Similar To
Indonesian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
sila
  
Biko
  
Sorry
maaf
  
Ndo
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Ibo
  
French Name
malais
  
igbo
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Standard Igbo
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Malaysian and Igbo 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 Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Igbo language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Igbo Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian Alphabets and Igbo 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 Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.