Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Somalia
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Somali Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
akkam
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Galatoomi
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Maaloo
  
sila
  
Sorry
naa dhiisi
  
maaf
  
Bye
Nagayattii!
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Borana
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
19
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Orma
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 3
Wata
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
24.00 million
  
33
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
  
Not Available
  
French Name
galla
  
malais
  
German Name
Galla-Sprache
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Oromos
  
Not Available
  
Origin
16
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
om
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
orm
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
orm
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
orm
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1736
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Oromo and Malaysian 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 Oromo and Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Oromo and Malaysian language. Oromo word for "Hello" is akkam or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Oromo Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Oromo vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Oromo vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Oromo Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Oromo and Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Oromo and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Oromo is Not Available while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.