Malay vs Swahili
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Malay Language
Mastering Malay will take from you 36 hours or 900 weeks in a class according to FSI. Difficulty category for mastering it is evaluated - point.
Swahili Language
Learning Swahili might seem like a overwhelming thing to do. FSI has concluded that it takes 36 hours or 900 weeks in a class to learn the language. The difficulty point is -.
Malay Community
You will most likely find people, who speaks Malay In Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, and East Timor, Parts of Thailand.
Number of native speakers is about 77,000,000.
Number of fluent speakers is about 300,000,000.
The biggest country in which Malay is used as a native language is Malaysia.
Swahili Community
Native speakers of Swahili are mostly from African Great Lakes countries (Kenya, Tanzania, and the DRC) and are about 5,000,000 people.
Swahili are spoken fluently by 140,000,000 people.
The language is spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bajuni Islands, Mozambique (mostly Mwani), Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda,Comoros, Mayotte, Zambia, Malawi, and Madagascar.
Malay Origin
Malay came from Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.
Swahili Origin
Bantu language a subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family is the origin of Swahili Language
