Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Interesting Facts
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
  
- 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
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Olá
  
Hai
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Por Favor
  
sila
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
maaf
  
Bye
tchau
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Português
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Not Available
  
French Name
portugais
  
malais
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Not Available
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Portuguese 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 Portuguese and Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Portuguese and Malaysian language. Portuguese word for "Hello" is Olá or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Portuguese Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Portuguese vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Portuguese vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Portuguese 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 Portuguese and Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Portuguese and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Portuguese is 24 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.