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