1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
India
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Malaysia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
1.4 Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Thailand
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Not Available
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
1.9 Similar To
Indonesian Language
Munda 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
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
3.3 How Are You?
Apa khabar?
Cet’leka menama?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Selamat Petang
Boge Ayup’
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
Not Available
3.12 Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
Not Available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
India
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00NA
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 million6.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million6.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Bahasa melayu
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austroasiatic 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,
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Santali
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Not Available
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
No data available
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
Not Available