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The Malay Language

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Facts about Malay

• Language code (ISO 639-3): zlm
• Autonyms (how to write "Malay" in Malay): Malay: bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو‎,
• Other names for "Malay": Bahasa Daerah, Bahasa Melayu, Malayu, Colloquial Malay, Informal Malay, Local Malay
• The Malay language is spoken in: Malaysia

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Malay is an Austronesian language officially spoken in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore and unofficially spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand. It is spoken by 290 million people (around 260 million as Indonesian) across the Malay world.

As the Bahasa Kebangsaan or Bahasa Nasional ("national language") of several states, Standard Malay has various official names. In Malaysia, it is designated as either Bahasa Malaysia ("Malaysian language") or Bahasa Melayu ("Malay language"). In Singapore and Brunei, it is called Bahasa Melayu ("Malay language") and in Indonesia, an autonomous normative variety called Bahasa Indonesia ("Indonesian language") is designated the Bahasa Persatuan/Pemersatu ("unifying language"/lingua franca). However, in areas of Central to Southern Sumatra where vernacular varieties of Malay are indigenous, Indonesians refer to it as Bahasa Melayu and consider it one of their regional languages.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_language

Malay Dictionaries

• Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu: Malay dictionary & thesaurus

• Sealang: dictionary & corpus, based on the Malay-English Dictionary, by Richard James Wilkinson (1932)

• Cambridge: English-Malay dictionary

• Bhanot: Malay-English dictionary

• MyKamus: Malay-English dictionary

• L-lingo: Malay-English vocabulary, by topics (+ audio)

• 17 minute languages: Malay-English common phrases (+ audio)

• English-Malay dictionary by William Shellabear (1916)

• Malay-English vocabulary & nautical and medical terms (1912)

• A Malay-English dictionary by Richard James Wilkinson (1901)

• An abridged Malay-English dictionary (romanized) (1908)

• Vocabulary of the English and Malay languages by Frank Swettenham (1910)

• Dictionary of the Malay language (A-G) by Hugh Clifford & Frank Swettenham (1894)

• Vocabulary of Malay medical terms by Percy Netterville Gerrard (1905)

• Dictionary of the Malay language by John Crawfurd (1852)

• Dictionary of the Malayan language by William Marsden (1826)

• Dictionary of the Malay tongue, as spoken in the Peninsula of Malacca, the islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Pulo Pinang. English-Malay dictionary by James Howison (1801)

• Dictionnaire français-malais: French-Malay dictionary, by Pierre Favre (1880) A-I & H-Z

• Dictionnaire malais-français (1875): I & II

• Vocabulaire français-malais : French-Malay vocabulary by Ch. Bougourd (1856)

• Dictionnaire français et malais : French-Malay dictionary by Pierre Boze (1825)

• Dictionnaire hollandais et malai & Dictionnaire français et malai by Cornelis Elout & William Marsden (1826)

• Nieuw maleisch-nederlandsch zakwoordenboek: Malay-Dutch dictionary, by Hillebrandus Cornelius Klinkert (1910)

• Practisch maleisch-hollandsch en hollandsch-maleisch handwoordenboek: Malay-Dutch dictionary, by L. Mayer (1895)

• Maleisch-nederlandsch woordenboek: Malay-Dutch dictionary, by Hermann von de Wall & Herman van der Tuuk (1877): I & II

• Maleisch-hollandsch woordenboek: Malay-Dutch dictionary, by Jan Pijnappel (1875)

• Malay youth language in West Malaysia, by Tom Hoogervorst, in Youth language in Indonesia and Malaysia (2015)

• Lexical borrowing in Malaysian English: influences of Malay, by Siew Imm Tan, in Lexis (2009)

• Malay (and Javanese) loan-words in Chinese as a mirror of cultural exchanges, by Claudine Salmon, in Archipel (2009)

Sources:

• https://www.lexilogos.com/english/malay_dictionary.htm

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Last Lessons

Practice Exams — Exam Strategies — A1 Exam Overview — Pop Culture and Entertainment — Malay Society Today — Business and Finance — Literature and Poetry — Science and Technology — Politics and Government — Causative Verbs — Conditional Sentences — Passive Voice — Relative Clauses — Malay Cuisine — Art and Music — Malay Customs and Traditions — Religion and Festivals — Jobs and Professions — Travel and Transportation — Family and Relationships — Everyday Objects — Colors and Shapes — Numbers and Counting — Food and Drinks — Questions and Interrogatives — Prepositions and Conjunctions — Adjectives and Adverbs — Verbs and Tenses — Nouns and Pronouns — Alphabet and Pronunciation