What race is Malay?
Malays (Malay: Orang Melayu, Jawi: أورڠ ملايو) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the eastern Sumatra, Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands that lie between these locations — areas that are collectively known as the Malay world.
What is a Malay person?
Malay, Malay Orang Melayu (“Malay People”), any member of an ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula and portions of adjacent islands of Southeast Asia, including the east coast of Sumatra, the coast of Borneo, and smaller islands that lie between these areas.
What is the difference between Malaysia and Indonesia?
Malaysia is a former British colony, whilst Indonesia is a former Dutch colony. Thus, Bahasa Melayu tends towards English loanwords, while Indonesian tends to borrow from Dutch.
Is Bahasa a Malay?
In Singapore and Brunei, it is called bahasa Melayu (“Malay language”) and in Indonesia, an autonomous normative variety called bahasa Indonesia (“Indonesian language”) is designated the bahasa persatuan/pemersatu (“unifying language”/lingua franca)….Malay language.
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Standard forms | Indonesian Malaysian |
Is Bahasa Indonesia same as Malaysia?
In Indonesia, “Indonesian Malay” usually refers to the vernacular varieties of Malay spoken by the Malay peoples of Indonesia, that is, to Malay as a regional language in Sumatra, though it is rarely used. Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Melayu are used interchangeably in reference to Malay in Malaysia.
Is Bahasa the same as Indonesian?
Indonesian is a form of Malay, spoken in Indonesia. The term “Indonesian” is political rather than linguistic, as Indonesian Malay (called Bahasa Indonesia in Indonesia) is virtually identical with Bahasa Melayu, another variety of Malay, as spoken in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.
Is Bahasa spoken in Malaysia?
Malay (/məˈleɪ/; Malay: bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو, Rejang: ꤷꥁꤼ ꤸꥍꤾꤿꥈ) is an Austronesian language officially spoken in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore and unofficially spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand….Malay language.
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Standard forms | Indonesian Malaysian |