Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Pakistan
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Pakistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
India
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
  
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.
  
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  
Similar To
Indonesian Language
  
Arabic and Hindi Languages
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Ghaznavid Persian Language
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Urdu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
خوش آمديد
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
آپ کا شکریہ
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
گڈ نائٹ
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
سلام علیکم
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
گڈ آفٹر نون
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
گڈ مارننگ
  
Please
sila
  
براہ مہربانی
  
Sorry
maaf
  
معاف کرنا
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
الوداع
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
مجھے تم سے محبت
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
معاف کیجئے گا
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Dakhini
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
11,000,000.00
  
12
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Hyderabadi Urdu
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Rekhta
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
South Asia
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
104.00 million
  
15
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
61.00 million
  
19
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
43.00 million
  
14
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
اُردُو
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Bihari
  
French Name
malais
  
ourdou
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Urdu
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
[ˈʊrd̪u]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
12th Century CE
  
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,
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Modern Standard Urdu
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Signed Urdu
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
ur
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
urd
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
urd
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
urd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
urdu1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
59-AAF-q
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional
  
Malaysian and Urdu 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 Urdu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Urdu language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Urdu word for "Thank You" is آپ کا شکریہ. Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Urdu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Urdu Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Urdu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian Alphabets and Urdu 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 Urdu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Urdu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Urdu time required is 44 weeks.