Alternate Names: Bahasa Malayu, Formal Malay, Informal Malay, Malay, Malayu, Melayu, Melayu Baku
Dialects: None known. Lexical similarity: more than 80% with Indonesian ,. A member of macrolanguage Malay ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: Few L1 speakers. L2 includes most Malaysian population.
Language Use: Also use English [eng], Mandarin Chinese [cmn], Tamil [tam].
Language Development: Used through secondary education and in some tertiary institutions. Fully developed. Bible: 1733–1996.
Typology: SVO.
Spoken In: Brunei, Malaysia
Writing System: Arabic, Braille, Latin
Nation of Origin: Malaysia
Other Comments: On Peninsular Malaysia, Standard Malay , exists in a diglossic relationship with Local Malay ,. Standard Malay (derived from court Malay), both in terms of its linguistic structure as well as its sociolinguistic function, has its closest counterpart not in a particular Local Malay dialect but in Standard Indonesian ,.