Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
North Korea, South Korea
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
The National Institute of the Korean 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.
  
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  
Similar To
Indonesian Language
  
Chinese and Japanese languages
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Hangul
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
  
Please
sila
  
하십시오 (hasibsio)
  
Sorry
maaf
  
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
안녕 (annyeong)
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Jeju
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Gyeongsang
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Hamgyŏng
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
China, North Korea
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
77.00 million
  
22
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
한국어 (조선말)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
  
French Name
malais
  
coréen
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Koreanisch
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Koreans
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
Before 1st century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Koreanic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Korean Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
ko
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
kor
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
kor
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
Kor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
kore1280
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
45-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Malaysian and Korean 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 Korean greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Korean language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Korean word for "Thank You" is 감사합니다 (gamsahabnida). Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Korean Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Korean Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Korean difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian Alphabets and Korean 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 Korean are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Korean, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Korean time required is 88 weeks.