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Russian vs Malaysian


Malaysian vs Russian


Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore   

Total No. Of Countries
4   
11
3   
12

National Language
Russia   
Malaysia   

Second Language
Afganistan   
Indonesia   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan   
Thailand   

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences   
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka   

Interesting Facts
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
  • 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages   
Indonesian Language   

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary   
Tamil Language   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
33   
15
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10   
7
6   
3

How Many Consonants
21   
11
24   
14

Scripts
Cyrillic   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
36 weeks   
10

Greetings

Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)   
Hai   

Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)   
terima kasih   

How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)   
Apa khabar?   

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)   
Selamat Malam   

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)   
Selamat Petang   

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')   
Selamat tengah hari   

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)   
Selamat pagi   

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)   
sila   

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)   
maaf   

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)   
Selamat tinggal   

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)   
Saya sayang kamu   

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)   
Maafkan saya   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian   
Bengkulu   

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra   

How Many People Speak
30,000.00   
99+
1,600,000.00   
25

Dialect 2
Olonets   
Pekal   

Where They Speak
Olonets   
Indonesia   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
30,000.00   
40

Dialect 3
Novgorod   
Musi   

Where They Speak
Novgorod   
Indonesia   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
3,100,000.00   
11

Total No. Of Dialects
13   
13
24   
20

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million   
6
175.00 million   
10

Speaking Population
2.33 %   
9
1.16 %   
14

Native Speakers
166.00 million   
8
77.00 million   
12

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million   
7
98.00 million   
8

Native Name
Русский   
Bahasa melayu   

Alternative Names
Russki   
Not Available   

French Name
russe   
malais   

German Name
Russisch   
Malaiisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]   
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]   

Ethnicity
Russians   
Not Available   

History

Origin
1000 AD   
c. 683 AD   

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family   
Austronesian Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Not Available   

Branch
Eastern   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic   
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,   

Standard Forms
Standard Russian   
Pluricentric Standard Malay   

Language Position
7   
7
54   
39

Signed Forms
Signed Russian   
Malaysian Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
ru   
ms   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus   
msa   

ISO 639 2/B
rus   
may   

ISO 639 3
rus   
zsm   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
russ1263   
stan1306   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Agglutinative   

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Russian and Malaysian Language History

Comparison of Russian vs Malaysian language history gives us differences between origin of Russian and Malaysian language. History of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD whereas history of Malaysian language states that this language originated in c. 683 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Russian and Malaysian Language History.

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Russian 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 Russian and Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Malaysian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Russian vs Malaysian Difficulty

The Russian vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian 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 Russian and Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.

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