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Malay

Malay, endonym Bahasa Melayu, is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in several islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and Malay Peninsula on mainland Asia. The language is an official language of Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Malay is pluricentric and a macrolanguage, i.e., a group of mutually intelligible speech varieties, or dialect continuum, that have no traditional name in common, and which may be considered distinct languages by their speakers. Several varieties of it are standardized as the national language (bahasa kebangsaan or bahasa nasional) of several nation states with various official names. Classical Malay, also called Court Malay, was the literary standard of the pre-colonial Malacca and Johor Sultanates. Malay is an Austronesian language that belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch. Austronesian languages often possess phoneme inventories smaller than the world average. Two salient morphological characteristics are a system of affixation and reduplication to form new words.

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