Malaysian language

Spoken in

Ms

Msa

The Malaysian language or Bahasa Malaysia is the official language of the State of Malaysia. Your linguistic substructure is the Malay language. The use of the term " Bahasa Malaysia " is appearing for all Malaysian newspapers, radio and television broadcasts mandatory. Since Malay is well established not only as an official language, but is already in the primary level of the Malaysian education system, compulsory, can be assumed that Malay is understood at least as a second language by the vast majority of the population and spoken. According to the population the number of speakers so that is about 28 million.

Demarcation from the Indonesian language

The Indonesian language - Bahasa Indonesia Indonesia as referred to - used as linguistic base the Malay language. Since the two language versions of the same linguistically more than 80 %, which is based on Bahasa Melayu language group, with about 200 million speakers of the most spoken languages ​​in the world.

Language code

Malay is the language code ms or june or msa ( ISO 639).

History

During the colonial period, Richard Olaf Winstedt and Richard James Wilkinson had laid the foundations of today's education system in Malaysia and explored through their work not only the classification of the Malay language but also created the still valid today Malay - English dictionaries. At discharge, the Federation of Malaya in the independence of the term " Bahasa Melayu " was foremost introduced as Article 152 in the Constitution, in order to gain from the fathers of the independence of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman to the multi-ethnic state by a common language an identity.

After the bloody ethnic riots in 1969, Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussain the term " Bahasa Malaysia " to demonstrate in this way the unity of ethnic groups of Malaysia and to take the dispute to the supremacy of the indigenous Malays sharpness. Under the Minister of Education Anwar Ibrahim, the term " Bahasa Melayu " was reintroduced in 1986. In April 2007, the Malaysian Cabinet " Bahasa Malaysia " voted unanimously in favor of again as the official term for the national language of all ethnic groups in Malaysia to use.

" The Malay language belongs to Malaysians of all races and not just the Malays. The term Bahasa Malaysia would instil a sense of belonging. [Note 1] "

The use of the term " Bahasa Malaysia " is appearing for all Malaysian newspapers, radio and television broadcasts mandatory.

Pronunciation and grammar

Speech regulation

Bahasa Malaysia is regulated by the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka state institution (Institute of Language and Literature ).