Malay | |
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Bahasa Melayu بهاس ملايو | |
Native tae | Indonesie (as Indonesian) Malaysie (as Malaysian) |
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 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cocos (Keeling) Islands (de jure) |
Recognised minority leid in | ![]() o a regional leid in Sumatra apart frae the naitional staundart o Indonesian) |
Regulatit bi | Dewan 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 639-1 | ms |
ISO 639-2 | may (B) msa (T) |
ISO 639-3 | zlm – inclusive codeIndividual codes: zsm – Malaysianind – Indonesianlrt – Larantuka Malay ?kxd – Brunei ?meo – Kedah Malay ?zmi – Negeri Sembilan Malay ?dup – Duano ?jak – Jakun ?orn – Orang Kanaq ?ors – Orang Seletar ?tmw – Temuan ? |
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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.
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.