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Malayan

How many syllables in Malayan?

  3 syllables

Divide Malayan into syllables:   Ma-lay-an
Stressed syllable in Malayan:   Ma-lay-an
How to pronounce Malayan:   muh-ley-un
How to say Malayan:

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