Malay

E23976
Austronesian language language

Malay is an Austronesian language widely spoken in Southeast Asia and serves as a national or official language in several countries, including Malaysia, Indonesia (as Indonesian), Brunei, and Singapore.

Observed surface forms (12)

Surface form Occurrences
Malay language 7
Brunei Malay 5
Standard Malay 5
Malaysian Malay 2
Singapore Malay 2
Classical Malay 1
Kelantanese Malay 1
Malay macrolanguage 1
Medan Malay 1
Modern Malay 1

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language ⓘ
language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Banjar language ⓘ
Indonesian ⓘ
Minangkabau ⓘ
hasNativeSpeakersIn Borneo ⓘ
Malay Peninsula ⓘ
surface form: Peninsular Malaysia

Sumatra ⓘ
historicalScript Kawi script ⓘ
Pallava script ⓘ
ISO639-1Code ms ⓘ
ISO639-2Code msa ⓘ
ISO639-3Code msa ⓘ
languageFamily Austronesian languages ⓘ
surface form: Austronesian
macrolanguageOf Malay self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Brunei Malay

Indonesian ⓘ
Malay self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Malaysian Malay

Malay self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Singapore Malay
majorLoanwordSource Arabic ⓘ
Dutch ⓘ
English ⓘ
Portuguese language ⓘ
surface form: Portuguese

Sanskrit ⓘ
Tamil ⓘ
officialStatusIn Brunei Darussalam ⓘ
surface form: Brunei

Malaysia ⓘ
Singapore ⓘ
primaryReligionContext Islam ⓘ
region Southeast Asia ⓘ
regulatingBody Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Malaysia) ⓘ
Language Council of Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia (MABBIM) ⓘ
Language and Literature Bureau (Brunei) ⓘ
scriptVariant Jawi script ⓘ
surface form: Jawi

Rumi ⓘ
spokenIn Brunei Darussalam ⓘ
surface form: Brunei

Indonesia ⓘ
Malaysia ⓘ
Singapore ⓘ
standardizedVariety Malay self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Brunei Malay

Indonesian ⓘ
Malay self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Malaysian Malay

Malay self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Singapore Malay

Malay self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Standard Malay
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
surface form: Malayo-Polynesian
usedAs lingua franca in Maritime Southeast Asia ⓘ
usedIn education in Malaysia ⓘ
mass media in Malaysia ⓘ
writingDirection left-to-right ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
Jawi script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ
Rumi script ⓘ

Referenced by (61)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

this entity surface form: Riau Malay
this entity surface form: Malay language
Malay → standardizedVariety → Malay self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Standard Malay
Malay → standardizedVariety → Malay self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Malaysian Malay
Malay → standardizedVariety → Malay self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Brunei Malay
Malay → standardizedVariety → Malay self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Singapore Malay
Pegon script → usedFor → Malay ⓘ
this entity surface form: Malay language
mak yong → usesLanguage → Malay ⓘ
subject surface form: Mak Yong
this entity surface form: Kelantanese Malay