Malay
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Written in the latin script. Uses SVO word order with agglutinative morphology. Notable features include a politeness/honorific system, pronoun dropping.
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241,313 km²
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Word order SVO
Adjective after noun
Numeral before noun
Adposition preposition
Indef. article no
Pro-drop no
Tonal no
Gender no
Noun cases no