Malay

Details

Instance of

natural language, macrolanguage, modern language, language, standard language, literary language, human language

Subclass of

Malayan

Country

Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore, Timor-Leste, Morocco, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Thailand, Jordan

Said to be the same as

Bahasa

category for films in this language

Category:Malay-language films

category for music in this language

Category:Malay-language music

described by source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

different from

Malayalam, Malagasy, Standard Malay

does not have characteristic

agreement

history of topic

history of the Malay language

indigenous to

Malays

intangible cultural heritage status

National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Malaysia

language regulatory body

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Brunei, Agency for Language Development and Cultivation

linguistic typology

subject–verb–object, agglutinative language, zero-marking language, noun-adjective, synthetic language

native label

Bahasa Melayu, بهاس ملايو‎

number of speakers, writers, or signers

77000000, 77000000

short name

BM, ب. م.

signed form

Manually Coded Malay

studied by

Malay studies

topic's main category

Category:Malay language

Wikimedia language code

ms

writing system

Malay alphabet, Jawi, Latin script

Works in this collection (27)

• Siti Nurhaliza I1996
• Siti Nurhaliza II1997
• Cindai1997
• Adiwarna1998
• Pancawarna1999
• E.M.A.S2003
• Prasasti Seni2004
• Safa2001
• Sanggar Mustika2002
• Anugerah Aidilfitri2003

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