Translations:Malay/1/en

The Malay language (language code: ms; autonym: Bahasa Melayu) is spoken by more than 200 million people mainly in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Formally it is segmented into Bahasa Indonesia, the official language of Indonesia, and Bahasa Malaysia, the official language of Malaysia. In Singapore and Brunei the language is called Bahasa Melayu ("language of the Malays"). Indonesian and Malay are mutual understandable to a certain extend, but is not sufficient for deeper conversations between a speaker of Malay and Indonesian. The situation between these two languages is similar to the situation between German and Swiss-German, people can understand each other to some extend, but deep conversations are hardly possible. The Malay language is normally written with Latin script. An adjusted Arabic script also exists but is mainly used in Islamic texts and education. For more information see Wikipedia:Malay language