1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Japan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
1.9 Similar To
Indonesian Language
Korean Language
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
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
terima kasih
ありがとう (Arigatō)
3.3 How Are You?
Apa khabar?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
3.4 Good Night
Selamat Malam
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
3.5 Good Evening
Selamat Petang
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
3.7 Good Morning
Selamat pagi
おはよう (Ohayō)
3.8 Please
sila
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
3.9 Sorry
maaf
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
さようなら (Sayōnara)
3.11 I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
すみません (Sumimasen)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Kagawa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
175.00 million128.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million128.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Japanese (Yamato)
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Japonic 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,
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Japanese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Japanese
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
No data available
45-CAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic