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Languages of Malaysia

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official language of Indonesia

Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka

Austronesian macrolanguage, basis for Malaysian Malay and Indonesian

Dravidian language native to South India

major branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China

Austronesian language

Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly romanized as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. Although Cantonese specifically refers to the prestige variety in linguistics, the term is often used more broadly to describe the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese, including varieties such as Taishanese, which have limited mutual intelligibility with Cantonese.

Malayic language spoken predominantly by the Minangkabau ethnic group

primary branch of Chinese originating in Southern China

South Sulawesi language predominantly spoken by the Bugis ethnic group

branch of the Min Chinese language

Austronesian language spoken in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Madura

branch of the Min group of Sinitic languages of China

Visayan language spoken in the Philippines and Malaysia

Malaysian Malay

standard Malay dialect spoken in Malaysia

language family

Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Vietnam and Cambodia

branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language subfamily

Coastal Dayak language spoken by Iban people

Hokkien ( , ) is a variety of the Southern Min group of Chinese languages. Native to and originating from the Minnan region in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern China, it is also referred to as Quanzhang (), from the first characters of the urban centers of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.

Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines

Western Sumatran language of Kerinci people originating from Kerinci region in Sumatra

dialect under the Betawic family language spoken in Cocos Islands, Australia

Aslian Languages

subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family

Kelantan-Pattani Malay

dialect of Malay spoken in Pattani, Kelantan, and Besut

vernacular Malayic language variety spoken in Brunei

creole language spoken by the Kristang people

Northern Mahakam language spoken by the Bahau ethnic

language family, subgroup of Coastal Dayak

Kedah-Perak-Perlis-Penang Malay

Malaysian Malay dialect spoken in Kedah, Perlis, Perak, and Penang

language spoken in Indonesia

Coastal Kadazan

Melanau language

'''Ten'edn, also known as Mos in Thailand and Tonga-Mos or just Tonga''' in some sources, is an Aslian language spoken by the Maniq people of Thailand and Malaysia.

Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Mindanao by the Iranun people

language of Bedaro people originating from Bedaro at Jambi in Sumatra island

Austroasiatic language spoken in Thailand and Malaysia

languages of Malaysia

languages spoken in Malaysia

Manglish is an informal or basilect form of Malaysian English with features of an English-based creole principally used in Malaysia. It is heavily influenced by the main languages of the country, Malay, Tamil, and varieties of Chinese. It is highly colloquial and not one of the official languages spoken in Malaysia.

Aslian language of Kelantan, Malaysia

Austroasiatic language spoken in Malaysia and Thailand

language in Sabah

Austronesian language

Sabahan language spoken in Brunei and Malaysia