Definitions The word "Malay" was adopted into English via the Dutch word "Malayo", which ultimately originates from the Malay word "Melayu". MALAY is the nationality of Malaysia. Malay is the official language of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei, and is one of the four official languages of Singapore. Malay is the regional lingua franca, and Malay-based pidgins exist in most trading ports in Indonesia (see Malay-based creoles). Malay is a fairly close relative; it can be considered as a cousin of Javanese. Other close relatives include Sundanese, Madurese and Balinese.

Malay English

1. External link Ethnologue report for Malay Malay - English Dictionary Not to be confused with the Malayalam language, spoken in India.
2. A version for Malay to English translation is also available.

Malay Translation

1. Professional Malay translation services from native speaking Malay translators.
2. This data base provides the bilingual dictionary in the translator workstation SISKEP for French to Malay translation mentioned earlier.

Bahasa

1. In Singapore and Brunei it is known simply as Malay or Bahasa Melayu. (Web site)
2. If you want to learn the Malay 'Bahasa Malaysia' then this book is perfect. (Web site)
3. In Malaysia, it is known as Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Malaysia, which means the Malay, or Malaysian, language.

Dictionaries

1. The word bicara is assigned several meanings by Malay-English dictionaries.
2. In the Malay and Indonesian dictionaries peranakan and beranak are used interchangeably and mean to give birth to.

Words

1. Links to other Malay dictionaries and words.
2. Upon rediscovering the Malay world, certain imported words came up.
3. Little Malay Dictionary - list of words with translations between Malay, English, and Finnish.
4. A description of Malay, including differences with Indonesian, usage, loan words, and simple phrases.
5. But I understand some Malay words because I heard a lot of Malay as a child. (Web site)

Malay Peninsula

1. Malacca (or Melaka in Malay) is a state of Malaysia, located in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula, on the Straits of Malacca.
2. Negritos of Peninsular Malaysia Location of Orang Asli groups, and the evolution of settlers on the Malay Peninsula. (Web site)
3. Austronesian language with some 33 million first-language speakers in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and other parts of Indonesia and Malaysia. (Web site)
4. The false gharial occurs in the swamps, lakes, and rivers of the Malay Peninsula of Thailand and Malaysia, and on the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java.
5. In the 14th century traders and settlers from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo introduced Islam to the southern islands of the Sulu Archipelago. (Web site)

Chinese

1. LANGUAGE: The four official languages are Malay (the national language), English, Chinese (Mandarin) and Tamil. (Web site)
2. The island has a population of about 200.000, and like the rest of Riau this is a true mix of cultures like Malay, Bugis, Chinese and the Orang Laut.
3. Major ethnic groups include the Dayak, Malay, Chinese, which make up about 90% of the total population.
4. Translates English to Malay and Chinese or vice versa. (Web site)
5. Baba Malay is a Chinese Malay Creole that only has about 1000 speakers left.

Origin

1. Malay contains many words of Sanskrit and Arabic origin. (Web site)
2. See the list of words of Malay origin at Wiktionary, the free dictionary and Wikipedia's sibling project. (Web site)
3. English words of Malay origin include orangutan, gingham, sarong, bamboo, rattan, kapok, paddy, and amok. (Web site)

Indonesia

1. The Javanese language is part of the Malayo-Polynesian (or Austronesian) family of languages, and is therefore related to Bahasa Indonesia and Malay.
2. However, Indonesian, a standardized variety of Malay, serves as a lingua franca throughout Indonesia and East Timor. (Web site)
3. In several parts of Indonesia, in Sumatra and Borneo Islands, Malay is spoken as local dialect of Malay ethnic. (Web site)
4. In several parts of Indonesia, in Sumatra and Borneo Islands, Malay is spoken as local dialect of ethnic Malays.
5. Bahasa Indonesia, the national language of Indonesia) is derived from "a pidgi- nized Malay". (Web site)

Brunei

1. Malay --------c x-----du--ng trong nh----ng quo--c-gia sau --a--y: Brunei, Ma---Lai-A-- , Qua--n --a--o Cocos (Keeling), Ta--n-Gia-Ba, Tha--i-Lan .
2. An elaboration of Collins (1994a), provides semantic and morphological evidence for the close relationship between Brunei and Bacan Malay.
3. The ringgit Brunei (Malay) or the Brunei dollar (English, currency code: BND), has been the currency of the Sultanate of Brunei since 1967. (Web site)
4. Silat is an art from the Malay World and has regional variations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, among others.
5. The official language of Brunei is Malay but English is widely spoken and understood.

Baba Malay

1. Baba Malay strips the tones from the Hokkien words that it borrows. (Web site)
2. The disadvantage of my decision is that I exaggerate the differences between Standard Malay (Bahasa Malaysia) and Baba Malay. (Web site)

Thailand

1. Malay is spoken principally in Malaysia and, to a lesser extent, in neighboring Thailand and Singapore. (Web site)
2. There however remains a Malay majority in southern Thailand, as the area was formerly part of the Pattani kingdom, a Malay kingdom.
3. These mountains are the main range that forms the backbone of the Malay Peninsula, running north-south, from Thailand to peninsular Malaysia.
4. The southern tip of Thailand is mostly ethnically Malay, and most Malays are Sunni Muslims. (Web site)

Ambonese Malay

1. Christian speakers use Ambonese Malay as their mother tongue, meanwhile Muslims speak it as second language for they have got their own language.
2. Collection of ten pantun in a standardized Ambonese Malay.

Archipelago

1. Malayan folk, who are the dominant race of the Malay Peninsula and of the Malay Archipelago. (Web site)
2. The term "Malaysian" (or "Malayan") denotes the population of Malaysia and the Malay Archipelago. (Web site)
3. The map of the use of Malay (Adelaar, 1992) shows that there are some Malay regions of Indonesian archipelago stretching from east to west.
4. The islands of Indonesia are part of the Malay Archipelago, which also includes the Philippines.
5. Indonesia - in the Malay archipelago; including islands such as Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and New Guinea.

Malay Spoken

1. Ternate Malay is a variant of Malay spoken on the island of Ternate (Maluku Utara, Indonesia) by approximately 90.000 people.
2. It is a Malay spoken by Chinese descendants who live in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
3. A close inspection gives us a definite answer: NO. Let's begin with the Malay spoken during the Sultanate of Malacca.
4. Malay Spoken among Muslim peoples in the southern Philippines.
5. The Indonesian language is the form of Malay spoken in Indonesia.

Lingua Franca

1. Alongside Malay, Portuguese was the lingua franca for trade throughout the archipelago from the sixteenth century through to the early nineteenth century.
2. Malay continues as the lingua franca, but English remains strong. (Web site)
3. A nationalistic youth congress held in Jakarta in 1928 called for Malay - the existing lingua franca - to be the official national language. (Web site)
4. In Singapore, Malay was historically the lingua franca among people of different races and nationalities.
5. Malay is spoken among Muslim people in the southern Philippines as a lingua franca.

Malay-Indonesian

1. Ambonese Malay-Indonesian dictionary containing over 1000 entries.

Malay

1. Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) Indonesian, an Austronesian language, is a standardized form of Malay and is spoken throughout Indonesia.
2. Indonesian is distinct by its vocabulary from Malay as spoken in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, where the language is known simply as Bahasa Melayu. (Web site)
3. Indonesian is distinct by its vocabulary from Malay as spoken in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, where the language is known simply as Bahasa Malaysia. (Web site)
4. True enough, we looked it up in an English-Malay dictionary, and it is not listed. Naughty.
5. Includes description, classification, location and uses for each plant, as well as local Malay names. In Latin and Dutch in parallel format.

Malays

1. Elenco di alberghi, sistemazioni e alloggi in MALAY. PLANIGO.COM.
2. Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Malay language.
3. May be intelligible with other Malay varieties. Muslim. Survey needed. (Web site)
4. Description of Moluccan Malay pronouns, as used in the Netherlands.
5. Hawaiian, Maori, Tagalog, and Malay are all representatives of this language family.

Traders

1. By the end of the 12th century, traders and settlers from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo introduced Islamic faith to the islands. (Web site)

Ancestry

1. The Coloured group included people of mixed Bantu, Khoisan, and European descent (with some Malay ancestry, especially in the Western Cape).
2. These Mesolithic hunters were probably the ancestors of the Semang, an ethnic Negrito group who have a deep ancestry within the Malay Peninsula.

Hawaiian

1. It is further divided into words that come from Hawaiian, Javanese, and Malay.
2. Hawaiian, Maori, Tagalog, and Malay are all representatives of this language family.

Centuries

1. It is a normative form of the Malay language, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries. (Web site)
2. Centuries later, people of Malay descent with various blend of Mongolic characteristics took control of the rich Cagayan River coastal plains.
3. Indonesian and Malay are separated by some centuries of different vocabulary development. (Web site)

Europeans

1. Both came from Malay, back then before the Europeans invaded southeast asia ALL of us used to speak the same language, which is Malay. (Web site)
2. By the Middle Ages, instruments from Mesopotamia could be found in the Malay Archipelago and Europeans were playing instruments from North Africa.

Ancestors

1. Their ancestors, who were of Malay stock, came from the southeastern Asian mainland as well as from what is now Indonesia. (Web site)
2. In Malaysia, the term Malay refers to a person who practices Islam and Malay traditions, speaks the Malay language and whose ancestors are Malays.
3. The aborigines of Agusan del Sur are the ancestors of the present day Mamanwas, who were driven to the hinterlands by waves of Malay immigrants.

Ethnic Group

1. The Malay ethnic group is the majority in Malaysia and Brunei and a sizable minority in Singapore and Indonesia.
2. For the Malay ethnic group, see Malays (ethnic group). (Web site)
3. Malaysians use the term Malay to refer not to the language but to an ethnic group i.e.

Peninsular Malaysia

1. West Malaysia, also known as Peninsular Malaysia, consists of the southern portion of the Malay Peninsula and nearby islands.

Script

1. Rumi (Latin alphabet for Malay language), however, is still the most commonly used script in Malaysia, both for official and informal purposes. (Web site)
2. Jawi is one of the two official scripts in Brunei and Malaysia as the script for the Malay language. (Web site)
3. Historically, Malay language has been written using various types of script. (Web site)

Written

1. Historically, Malay has been written using various types of script. (Web site)
2. Old Malay was written using Pallava and Kawi script, as evident from several inscription stones in the Malay region. (Web site)
3. Old Malay language was written using Pallava and Kawi script, as evident from several inscription stones in the Malay region. (Web site)

Related

1. Furthermore, various other languages are closely related to Malay, including Minangkabau, Kerinci, Iban and Kendayan.
2. The fact is that the people here are a mix of Malay and Melanese, while the language is related to eastern Sumbawa, western Flores and Sawu. (Web site)
3. The Minahasa speak Minahasan languages and Manado Malay Minahasa Malay), a language closely related to the Malay language.

Portuguese

1. There are small communities of people with Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, Malay and Indian origins living here.
2. As the result, for daily speaking, Malay has been blended with many European languages (especially Dutch and Portuguese) as well as local languages. (Web site)
3. In their search for spices, the Portuguese arrived in Indonesia in 1511, after their conquest of the Islamic kingdom of Malacca on the Malay Peninsula. (Web site)

Sulu

1. Sulu is the gateway that connects to Borneo and Malay Peninsula, which explains the very close ties between the people of these areas. (Web site)

Philippines

1. It has various common names, including pulasan in English, Spanish and Malay, kapulasan in Malaysia, ngoh-khonsan in Thailand, and bulala in the Philippines.
2. When the Spanish had first arrived in the Philippines in the 16th century, Old Malay was spoken among the aristocracy.
3. Pterocarpus indicus is reported to be indigenous to Malaysia, but is also found in the Philippines, Borneo, Burma, New Guinea, and the Malay Archipelago.

Extent

1. Extent of use and dialects The extent to which Malay is used in these countries varies depending on historical and cultural circumstances. (Web site)
2. The extent to which Malay is used in these countries varies depending on historical and cultural circumstances.

Mutually

1. Because of its origins, Indonesian (in its most standard form) is mutually intelligible with the official Malaysian form of Malay.
2. Malay and Indonesian are not mutually intelligible with Tagalog or Cebuano. (Web site)
3. See also Differences between Malay and Indonesian Most of the Polynesian dialects are mutually intelligible. (Web site)

Tamil

1. Besides English, Malay, spoken by the majority population, Chinese and Tamil are in use in the multi-ethnic society.

Hindi

1. Roti means bread in Hindi, Urdu, most other North Indian languages, and Malay.
2. If anything we need campaigns to encourage more people to take up each other's languages, especially the minority ones, whether Tamil, Hindi, or Malay. (Web site)

Sanskrit

1. There has been significant word borrowing from Arabic, Dutch and Malay as well, but none as extensively as from Sanskrit. (Web site)
2. Some are in (Old) Malay, the rest is in Sanskrit although sometimes interspersed with few Javanese words: nouns, place names, proper names and titles. (Web site)
3. About 10% of Malay words are originated from Sanskrit and some Indian languages.

Island

1. English calls the island as Borneo to describe the northern view side, comes from Malay “Buah Niyor”, means coconut. (Web site)
2. Srivijaya or Sriwijaya was an ancient Malay kingdom on the island of Sumatra, Southeast Asia which influenced much of the Malay Archipelago. (Web site)
3. It has been suggested that prior to British acquisition of the island, the Malay chief in charge of Singapore was the Temenggung of Johor.

Dutch

1. The main differences are in the loan words: Malay borrowed mainly from English while Indonesia borrowed mainly from Dutch.
2. While Malay borrowed many words from English in colonial times, Indonesian was influenced by Dutch. (Web site)
3. Late Modern Malay (c1850 - 1957) By this time Malay has absorbed numerous loan words from the colonists namely: Portuguese, Dutch and English.

Vocabulary

1. One of the very few that instead aims to make it more universal is Bonjang, which takes much of its vocabulary from Malay, Tagalog, Mandarin, and Swahili.
2. However, it does differ from Malay in several aspects, with differences in pronunciation and vocabulary.

Speakers

1. Relatively speaking, Malay has less sociolinguistic rules differentiating the social levels of the speakers, compared to Javanese. (Web site)
2. Javanese Malay tends to have a lot of words unique to it which will be unfamiliar to other speakers of Malay.
3. The language is dying out, as most speakers currently use standard Malay in everyday speech.

Melanesia

1. The country extends from adjacent the Malay Peninsula in its west and into Melanesia in its east. (Web site)

Polynesian Languages

1. See also Differences between Malay and Indonesian There is a degree of mutual intelligibility among some of the Polynesian languages. (Web site)

Creole

1. Betawi and eastern dialects are sometimes regarded as Malay creole, because the speakers are not ethnically Malay.

Mandarin

1. Still, to cater to the diverse races in Singapore, most government signs are carried in the four official languages of Malay, English, Mandarin and Tamil.
2. Knowledge of some Malay or Indonesian (or even Mandarin) is recommended as there are few English speakers outside of Tanjung Pinang.
3. The common languages of Penang, depending on social classes, social circles, and ethnic backgrounds are English, Mandarin, Malay, Penang Hokkien and Tamil. (Web site)

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