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  2. Malay language - Wikipedia

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    Malay is the national language in Malaysia by Article 152 of the Constitution of Malaysia, and became the sole official language in West Malaysia in 1968, and in East Malaysia gradually from 1974. English continues, however, to be widely used in professional and commercial fields and in the superior courts. Other minority languages are also ...

  3. History of the Malay language - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Malayic is the language believed to have existed in prehistoric times, spoken by the early Austronesian settlers in the region. Its ancestor, the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language that derived from Proto-Austronesian, began to break up by at least 2000 BCE as a result possibly by the southward expansion of Austronesian peoples into the Philippines, Borneo, Maluku and Sulawesi from the ...

  4. Malay grammar - Wikipedia

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    Malay grammar is the body of rules that describe the structure of expressions in the Malay language (Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore) and Indonesian (Indonesia and Timor Leste). This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses and sentences. In Malay and Indonesian, there are four basic parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and ...

  5. Malaysian Malay - Wikipedia

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    Malaysian Malay (Malay: Bahasa Melayu Malaysia), also commonly known as Standard Malay (Bahasa Melayu piawai), Bahasa Malaysia (lit. ' Malaysian language '), or simply Malay, is a standardized form of the Malay language used in Malaysia and also used in Brunei and Singapore (as opposed to the variety used in Indonesia, which is referred to as the "Indonesian" language).

  6. Languages of Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    The indigenous languages of Malaysia belong to the Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian families. The national, or official, language is Malay which is the mother tongue of the majority Malay ethnic group. The main ethnic groups within Malaysia are the Malays, Chinese and Tamils, with many other ethnic groups represented in smaller numbers, each ...

  7. Malayic languages - Wikipedia

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    The Malayic languages (Malay: bahasa-bahasa Melayu, Indonesian: rumpun bahasa Melayik) are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. [1] The most prominent member is Malay , a pluricentric language given national status in Brunei and Singapore while also the basis for national standards Malaysian in ...

  8. Malay language in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Malay (Filipino: Wikang Malayo; Malay: Bahasa Melayu) spoken by a minority of Filipinos, particularly in the Palawan, Sulu Archipelago and parts of Mindanao, mostly in the form of trade and creole languages, such as Sabah Malay. Historically, use of Malay as lingua franca prior to the Spanish colonization of the Philippines is witnessed ...

  9. Malayisation - Wikipedia

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    They were operating on a range of frontiers – in Sumatra, Borneo and the peninsula – where non-Muslim peoples, in many cases the tribal communities, were gradually being brought into Malay realm: learning to speak the Malay language, adopting Islam, changing their customs and style of dress and assuming roles of one type or another within ...

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