Bahasa Melayu Bahasa Malaysia

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Not to be confused with the Malayalam language, spoken in India.

Malay Bahasa Malaysia / Bahasa Melayu, بهاس ملايو
Spoken in:	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand, southern Philippines, Australia
Total speakers:	20–30 million (first speaker), almost 400 million (second speaker including Indonesians)
Ranking:	54 (does not include Indonesian)
Language family:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Sunda-Sulawesi Malayic Malayan Local Malay Malay
Writing system:	Rumi (Latin alphabet) (official in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia; co-official in Brunei) and Jawi (Arabic script) (co-official in Brunei). Historically written in Pallava, Kawi and Rencong
Official status
Official language in:	Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, East Timor (working language)
Regulated by:	Majlis Bahasa Brunei Darussalam - Indonesia - Malaysia (Brunei Darussalam - Indonesia - Malaysia Language Council), Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Institute of Language and Literature) Pusat Bahasa, Indonesia
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	ms
ISO 639-2:	may (B)	msa (T)
ISO 639-3:	variously: msa – Malay (generic) mly – Malay (specific) btj – Bacanese Malay bve – Berau Malay bvu – Bukit Malay coa – Cocos Islands Malay jax – Jambi Malay meo – Kedah Malay mqg – Kota Bangun Kutai Malay xmm – Manado Malay max – North Moluccan Malay mfa – Pattani Malay msi – Sabah Malay vkt – Tenggarong Kutai Malay
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The Malay language (ISO 639-1 code: MS)^[1][2] (Malay: Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesia) | Bahasa Malaysia (Malaysia) | Bahasa Melayu (Singapore and Brunei); Jawi script: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people and people of other races who reside in the Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands and parts of the coast of Borneo.^[3]. Malayalam ( ) is the language spoken predominantly in the state of Kerala, in southern India. ... This is a list of languages, ordered by the number of native-language speakers, with some data for second-language use. ... A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common proto-language. ... The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ... The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages used by some 351 million speakers. ... The Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages are a branch of the Austronesian family that are thought to have dispersed from a possible homeland in Sulawesi. ... The Sunda-Sulawesi languages (or Inner Hesperonesian or Inner Western Malayo-Polynesian languages) are a branch of the Austronesian family which include the languages of Sulawesi and the Greater Sunda Islands, as well as a few outliers such as Charmorro and Palauan, as outlined in Wouk and Ross (2002). ... The Malay language, also known locally as Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Malaysia, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who reside in the Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands, and parts of the coast of Borneo. ... The Malay language (Malay: Bahasa Melayu; Jawi script: بهاس ملايو), is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who reside in the Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands, parts of the coast of Borneo and even in the Netherlands[1]. It is an official... Local Malay languages are a group of closely related languages that are the results of Malay outposts across Malaysia and Indonesia. ... Writing systems of the world today. ... Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz redirects here. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Yawi. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Tamil script. ... Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka or DBP is a government body that responsible to coordinate the use malay language in Malaysia and Brunei. ... The Pusat Bahasa (Indonesian for Language Center) is the institution responsible for designing and regulating the growth of the Indonesian language in Indonesia. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is an international standard for language codes. ... Jambi Malay is a variant of the Malay language spoken in Jambi (province). ... Manado Malay is a language spoken in Manado and the surrounding area. ... Yawi is the transcription of the Thai word ยาวี, which Thai people understand to be the Patani Malay language (or Bahasa Melayu Patani in Malay). ... The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Yawi. ... The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Malay Peninsula (Malay: Semenanjung Tanah Melayu) is a major peninsula located in Southeast Asia. ... For other uses, see Sumatra (disambiguation). ... The Riau Islands (Kepulauan Riau (Kepri for short) or sometimes Riau Kepulauan in Bahasa Indonesia) are a province and a group of islands in Indonesia, located south of Singapore, off the eastern coast of Riau province on Sumatra island. ... Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. ...

Malay is an official language of Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, and East Timor. In Indonesia and East Timor, the language is formally referred to as Bahasa Indonesia, which literally translates as "Indonesian language." It is also called Bahasa Kebangsaan (National Language) and Bahasa Persatuan/Pemersatu (Unifying Language) in Indonesia. In Malaysia, the language was once officially known as Bahasa Malaysia, ("Malaysian language".) An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in the countries, states, and other territories. ... Indonesian or Bahasa Indonesia, based on the Riau version of Malay language, was declared the official language with the declaration of Indonesias independence in 1945, following the 1928 unifying language declaration in the Indonesian Youth Pledge. ...

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My Comment in my native Malay dialect:-

1) Super yer jer, due-due makne same, hok tu ler jer.
2) Oghang politik duk guner pekataang nok wi sedak hati pihok-pihok bekenaang. Tapi mende gini peting jugok sebak kene mengene dengang pepaduang masharaka' bebilang kaung.
3) Zainuddin Maidin duk saloh ke Anwar Ibrahim hok tukor dari Bahasa Malaysia ke Bahasa Melayu, walhal dier pong guner sebak nok kauk undi bukang Melayu, nok wat sedak hati.
4) Sebelum Malaysia namer negare kiter ni Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, doh nok kira guaner? Dok ke yang tu hok asal kita.
5) Ader universiti kat negare orang putih rasanya ader fakulti bahasa Melayu, yang duk ngaji bahasa asal tanoh hok kita duduk lening, doh mintok la tukor sekali nama tu. Guaner DBP dok berapa cakner?