The official language of Myanmar is Burmese. Burmese is the mother tongue of millions of Bamar people – the biggest ethnic group in Myanmar. It is also spoken by the Mon ethnic minority group and some other minority ethnic groups in Myanmar. Therefore, Burmese becomes the most widely spoken ...
Malay-Indonesian is spoken in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Even though there are many dialects of Malay they are basically based on the same root language. “Hello” in Indonesian is “Selamat pagi”. 8. Portuguese – 191 Million Speakers Like many other European countries the Portuguese w...
but this kind of language is discouraged at schools (3)___ only Malaysian Standard English (4)___ (teach). In Manglish, words from other languages are (5)___ (actual) rare except for just a handful of common non-English nouns and verbs in Malaysia. Therefore, the use of Manglish is...
According to Ethnologue, 7,151 languages are spoken in the world today. The distinction between a language and a dialect can be a contentious topic, though. Just ask someone on the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland if Scots is a language or a dialect of English! There’s also a difference be...
Malay is the national language in three countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei - and is also an official language in Singapore. This wide distribution between countries is the reason this language is spoken by more than 77 million native speakers around the world; but those numbers go up...
Those in China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore speak Mandarin as their primary language. Of course, the bulk of the Mandarin speakers can be found in Mainland China, with a population of 1.3 billion. In Asia and the Pacific, 34% of the population speak Mandarin. Even with all the dialects...
The fact that Spanish is a global language in its own right (the language declares 400 million native speakers) is probably the cause.(西班牙研究机构的一项研究报告了一个坏消息:60%的成年人说他们根本不会说英语。事实上,西班牙语本身就是一门全球性的语言——该语言宣称有4亿人以它为母语,这可能是...
Language planning in multilingual countries : The case of the Philippines 1 Using the Philippines as a case study of a multilingual country and my familiarity with the South East Asian situation (Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore), I shall try to make a case for 1...
Tausug is also spoken in Malaysia.Other Filipino Languages with Over One Million SpeakersSeveral other Filipino languages have a million or more first language speakers, including Maguindanao (1.8 million), Zamboangueño (1.2 million), Kinaray-a (1.1 million) and Surigaonon (1 million). ...
The 30 Most Spoken Languages of the World PosLanguageFamilyScript(s) UsedSpeakers (Millions)Where Spoken (Major) 1MandarinSino-TibetanChinese Characters1377China, Malaysia, Taiwan 2EnglishIndo-EuropeanLatin1000USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand ...