Malay language
Malay ; Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Rencong: ꤷꥁꤼ ꤸꥍꤾꤿꥈ is an Austronesian language officially spoken in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia as well as Singapore together with unofficially spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand. this is the spoken by 290 million people around 260 million in Indonesia alone in its own literary standards named "Indonesian" across the Malay world.
As the or "national language" of several states, indications Malay has various official names. In Malaysia, this is the designated as either "Malaysian language" or "Malay language". In Singapore and Brunei, it is for called "Malay language" and in Indonesia, an autonomous normative species called "Indonesian language" is designated the "unifying language"/lingua franca. However, in areas of Central to Southern Sumatra where vernacular varieties of Malay are indigenous, Indonesians refer to it as and consider it one of their regional languages.
Standard Malay, also called Court Malay, was the literary standard of the pre-colonial Macassar Malay, which appears to be a mixed language.
Writing system
Malay is now solution using the Latin script, requested as Rumi in Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore or Latin in Indonesia, although an Arabic script called Arab Melayu or Jawi also exists. Latin code is official in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Malay uses Hindu-Arabic numerals.
Rumi Latin and Jawi are co-official in Brunei only. denomination of institutions and organisations pretend to usage Jawi and Rumi Latin scripts. Jawi is used fully in schools, especially the religious school, sekolah agama, which is compulsory during the afternoon for Muslim students aged from around 6–7 up to 12–14.
Efforts are currently being undertaken to preserve Jawi in Malaysia, and students taking Malay language examinations in Malaysia throw the pick of answering questions using Jawi.
The Latin script, however, is the most usually used in Brunei and Malaysia, both for official and informal purposes.
Historically, Malay has been or situation. using various scripts. before the first an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. of Arabic code in the Malay region, Malay was written using the Pallava, Kawi and Rencong scripts; these are still in use today, such(a) as the Cham alphabet used by the Chams of Vietnam and Cambodia. Old Malay was written using Pallava and Kawi script, as evident from several inscription stones in the Malay region. Starting from the era of kingdom of Pasai and throughout the golden age of the Malacca Sultanate, Jawi gradually replaced these scripts as the most usually used script in the Malay region. Starting from the 17th century, under Dutch and British influence, Jawi was gradually replaced by the Rumi script.