Malay translation services
Malay (also know as Bahasa Malaysia or “language of Malaysia”) is spoken by around 18 million people worldwide. Roughly 10 million speakers of Malay live in Malaysia, where it is the official language. Other large populations of Malay speakers can be found in Brunei (Malay is the official language), Indonesia (Sumatra), Myanmar, Singapore (Malay is a co-official language), Thailand and the United States.
Standard Malay, which became the official language of Malaysia in 1968, is based on the dialect found in the southern Malay Peninsula. Despite its official status in Malaysia, Malay has not yet become the country’s lingua franca. English, as a language of international commerce, is still quite common among Malaysia’s large Chinese and Indian populations.
Malay has been greatly expanded through its borrowings from languages such as Arabic (in particular many religious terms), Sanskrit, Portuguese, Dutch, certain Chinese dialects and more recently, English (in particular many scientific and technological terms).
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