Malay leid

Malay
Bahasa Melayu
بهاس ملايو
Native taeIndonesie (as Indonesian)

Malaysie (as Malaysian)
Brunei
Singapore
Thailand (as Bahasa Jawi)
East Timor (as Indonesian)
Christmas Island[1]

Cocos (Keeling) Islands (de jure)
Native speakers
77 million (2007)[2]
Tot: mair nor 215 million[3]
Staundart forms
Latin (Malay alphabet)
Arabic (Jawi)[4]

Thai (in Thailand)

Historically Pallava, Kawi, Rencong
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in
 Indonesie
 Malaysie
 Brunei
 Singapore
Cocos (Keeling) Islands (de jure)
Recognised minority
leid in
 Indonesie(Local Malay enjoys the status
o a regional leid in Sumatra apart
frae the naitional staundart
o Indonesian)
Regulatit biDewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Institute o Leid an Literatur);
Majlis Bahasa Brunei–Indonesia–Malaysia
(Brunei–Indonesie–Malaysie
Leid Council – MABBIM) (a trilateral jynt-venture)
Leid codes
ISO 639-1ms
ISO 639-2may (B)
msa (T)
ISO 639-3zlminclusive code
Individual codes:
zsm – Malaysian
ind – Indonesian
lrt – Larantuka Malay ?
kxd – Brunei ?
meo – Kedah Malay ?
zmi – Negeri Sembilan Malay ?
dup – Duano ?
jak – Jakun ?
orn – Orang Kanaq ?
ors – Orang Seletar ?
tmw – Temuan ?

Malay is a major leid o the Austronesian family. Staundartized varieties o Malay are the offeecial leid o Malaysie (Malaysian), Indonesie (Indonesian) an Brunei. Malay is ane o fower offeecial leids o Singapore, an is a wirkin leid o East Timor, a consequence o ower twintie years o Indonesian administration. It is spoken natively bi 40 million fowk[5] athort the Malacca Strait, includin the coasts o the Malay Peninsula o Malaysie an soothren Thailand, Riau province, the eastren coast o Sumatra, an the Riau Islands in Indonesie, as haes been establisht as a native leid o Jakarta an o pairt o wastren coastal Sarawak an Kalimantan in Borneo. As a seicont leid, Indonesian is spoken bi an estimatit 140 million.[6]

In Malaysie, the staundart leid is cried Bahasa Malaysia "Malaysian leid". In Singapore, Brunei, soothren Thailand, an the soothren Philippines it is cried Bahasa Melayu "Malay leid", an in Indonesie it is generally cried Bahasa Indonesia, "Indonesian leid", though Bahasa Nasional "Naitional Leid" and Bahasa Persatuan/Pemersatu "Unifyin Leid" are an aa heard. Housomeivver, in auries o Sumatra an Riau whaur the leid is indigenous, Indonesians refer tae it as Bahasa Melayu.

  1. Influences come maistly frae Indonesie
  2. Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007
  3. Uli, Kozok (10 Mairch 2012). "How many people speak Indonesian". University of Hawaii at Manoa. Retrieved 20 October 2012. Even if we are very conservative and consider only two third of Malaysians and 85% of Indonesians as fluent speakers (either native, or near-native), there are still more than 215 million speakers of Malay-Indonesian.
  4. "Kedah MB defends use of Jawi on signboards". The Star. 26 August 2008. Archived frae the original on 4 September 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  5. 10 million in Malaysie, 5 million in Indonesie as "Malay" plus 23 million as "Indonesian", etc.
  6. Ethonologue, "Indonesian"

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