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Malaysian Malay

Also known as ms-my, ms-MY, Malaysian Standard Malay, Malaysian Malay dialect, Malaysia's Standard Malay, Standard Malay, Malaysia, Bahasa Malaysia, Malaysian Malay / Malaysian

standard Malay dialect spoken in Malaysia

Key facts

Pronunciation: [ baˈha.sə mə.la.ju mə'lej.sjə ] , [ baˈha.sə mə'lej.sjə ]
Native to: Malaysia , Singapore , Brunei
Speakers: Native: Few (2022) , L2: Spoken by the vast majority of those in Malaysia , although most learn a local Malay dialect or another native language first.
Language family: Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayic Malay Malaysian Malay
Early forms: Old Malay Classical Malay (Standard Classical Malay) Pre-Modern Malay (Standard Johor–Riau) Modern Malay (Malaysian language)
Writing system: Latin ( Rumi ), Arabic ( Jawi ) , Malaysian Braille
Signed forms: Manually Coded Malay
Official language in: Malaysia Singapore Brunei
Regulated by: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Malaysian Institute of Language and Literature), Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Brunei (Brunei Language and Literature Bureau) , Majlis Bahasa Melayu Singapura (Singapore Malay Language Council)
Iso 639 3: zsm
Glottolog: stan1306
Linguasphere: 33-AFA-ab

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Encyclopedic overview

Malaysian Malay (Malay: Bahasa Melayu Malaysia) or Malaysian (Bahasa Malaysia) – endonymically known as Standard Malay (Bahasa Melayu Baku) or simply Malay (Bahasa Melayu, abbreviated to BM) – is a standardized form of the Malay language used in Malaysia and also used in Singapore and Brunei (as opposed to the variety used in Indonesia, which is referred to as the "Indonesian" language). Malaysian Malay is standardized from the Johor–Riau dialect of Malay, particularly a branch spoken in the state of Johor south of the Malay Peninsula. It is spoken by much of the Malaysian population, although most learn a vernacular Malay dialect or another native language first.

Terminology

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Malaysian Malay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.