Malay language

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Malaysian (Bahasa Malaysia)

Spoken in

Malaysia
speaker about 28 million
Official status
Official language in MalaysiaMalaysia Malaysia
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

ms

ISO 639 -2 ( B ) may ( T ) msa
ISO 639-3

msa

Preschool in Pensiangan with tools for language education in Malaysian

The Malaysian language or Bahasa Malaysia is the official language of the State of Malaysia . Its linguistic base is the Malay language . The use of the term “Bahasa Malaysia” is mandatory for all newspapers, radio and television programs published in Malaysia. Since Malaysian is not only well established as an official language, but is also a compulsory subject in the primary level of the Malaysian education system , it can be assumed that Malaysian is understood and spoken at least as a second language by the vast majority of the population. According to the population, the number of speakers is around 28 million.

Differentiation from the Indonesian language

The Indonesian language - called Bahasa Indonesia in Indonesia - also uses the Malay language as a linguistic substructure . Since the two language versions are linguistically more than 80 percent the same, the Bahasa Melayu- based language group is one of the most widely spoken languages ​​on earth with around 200 million speakers.

Language code

Malaysian has the language code msor mayor msa(according to ISO 639 ).

history

Richard Olaf Winstedt and Richard James Wilkinson laid the foundations of today's education system in Malaysia during the colonial period and, through their work, not only researched the systematics of the Malay language, but also created the Malay-English dictionaries that are still valid today. When the Malaya Federation was granted independence, the term “Bahasa Melayu” was introduced into the constitution by the fathers of Malaysia's independence, above all Tunku Abdul Rahman, in order to give the multiethnic state an identity through a common language.

After the bloody ethnic unrest in 1969, Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussain introduced the term “Bahasa Malaysia” in order to demonstrate the unity of the ethnic groups of Malaysia and to alleviate the dispute over the supremacy of indigenous Malays. Under the Minister of Education Anwar Ibrahim, the name "Bahasa Melayu" was reintroduced in 1986. In April 2007 the Malaysian cabinet voted unanimously in favor of using "Bahasa Malaysia" again as the official term for the national language of all ethnic groups in Malaysia.

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

“The Malay language belongs to Malaysians of all races and not just Malaysians. The term Bahasa Malaysia would develop a sense of belonging. "

- Minister of Information Technology Seri Zainuddin Maidin

The use of the term “Bahasa Malaysia” is mandatory for all newspapers, radio and television programs published in Malaysia.

Pronunciation and grammar

Language regulation

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Back to Bahasa Malaysia. In: The Star of June 4, 2007; accessed on September 25, 2018.
  2. Ministry of Education: Frequently Asked Questions - To Uphold Bahasa Malaysia and to Strengthen the English Language (MBMMBI) ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 3, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moe.gov.my
  3. a b Standard Malay - A language of Malaysia. Ethnologue ; Retrieved November 3, 2013.
  4. Article 152 of the 1957 Constitution of Malaysia ( Wikisource ).