Malay Language

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Malay is a group of languages closely related to each other to the point of mutual intelligibility but that linguists consider to be separate languages. They are grouped into a group called "Local Malay", part of a larger group called "Malayan" within the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. The various forms of Malay are spoken in Brunei, Indonesia where the national language, Indonesian, is a variety of it, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and southern Thailand. Malay is the official language of Brunei and is the national language of Singapore. It was also formerly the official language of Malaysia. The national language of Indonesia is Indonesian, formally referred to as Bahasa Indonesia which literally translates as "Indonesian language". It is also called Bahasa Nasional National Language and Bahasa Persatuan/Pemersatu Unifying Language in Indonesia.

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• Assisted by: Agne F Vandome (Editor), John McBrewster (Editor), Frederic P. Miller (Editor), Agnes F. Vandome (Editor)
• Publisher: Alphascript Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9786130221072
• ISBN: 978-613-0-22107-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies