Malay

Malay

Bahasa Melayu
77M speakers · Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian · Latin
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MalaysiaSingaporeBruneiIndonesia

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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Official in 3 countries

MalaysiaSingaporeBrunei

241,313 km²

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Typology

Word order SVO
Adjective after noun
Numeral before noun
Adposition preposition
Indef. article no
Pro-drop no
Tonal no
Gender no
Noun cases no

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