Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Indonesian Language
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
sila
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
maaf
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
malais
  
népalais
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
19 BC
  
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,
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Malaysian and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Nepali language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Nepali Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.