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Malay

vr.tr.malay · INF.MED

Let an agent describe the Malay language and its varieties and standards, support learning and translation, explain status and regulation, and provide history with sources.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent describe the Malay language and its varieties and standards, support learning and translation, explain status and regulation, and provide history with sources.

An Austronesian language of the Malayic group spoken across Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore and neighbouring regions, standardised as Malaysian and Indonesian, with classical, regional and diaspora varieties such as Classical Malay, Siak Malay, Musi, Penesak and Cocos Malay; Malay is written in Latin and Jawi scripts and has served as a lingua franca of maritime Southeast Asia for centuries.

What it is for: A major language of Southeast Asia.

It can be describe the language and its varieties; support learning and translation; explain status and standards; provide history.

Distinguishing features

Lingua franca history

Multiple standards

Two scripts

Wide dialect range

What it looks like

Not physical; spoken and written language in Latin and Jawi scripts.

How it is recognised

Malayic Austronesian language

Latin and Jawi scripts

Indonesian is a standardised variety with its own norms

Related models

is a kind of - category

Malayan

is related to - another language entry

Swedish

is related to - Latin and Jawi scripts

alphabet

is related to - early Malay inscriptions

inscription

In practice

Families and kinds

Standard Malay of Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore

Indonesian

Classical Malay

regional Malay dialects

diaspora and contact varieties such as Cocos Malay

Identifiers

ISO 639-1 ms language code

ISO 639-3 msa macrolanguage code

Standards and regulation

Language councils of Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei

National language laws

Spelling reforms and joint spelling agreements

Failure modes and hazards

Confusing Malay and Indonesian norms

Overgeneralising dialects

Machine translation errors with registers

Also called

Judeo-MalayCocos MalayMusiSiak MalayClassical MalayPenesakRawasMalay in Jawi scriptRiau Sea Tribe Cluster MalayNatuna MalaySongkhla Malayvarieties of MalayMakassar MalayBangkok MalayKupang MalaySambas MalayReman MalayJambi MalayTerengganu MalayBurmese MalaysKedayan dialectLangkat MalayDeli MalayPahang MalayTembilahan Malay

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Learn Learning Malay.

Practice.

Start

Getting started.

Start

Getting started.

  1. How can someone start learning Malay, and which resources exist? action
  2. What are its main grammatical features? definition

Scripts

Latin and Jawi.

Scripts

Scripts.

  1. How are the Latin and Jawi scripts used for Malay, and where is Jawi still current? provenance
  2. How is Malay pronounced? definition
Use Translation and varieties.

Application.

Translate

Translation.

Translate

Translation.

  1. How should this text be translated into or from Malay, with attention to standard and register? action
  2. Which dictionaries are authoritative? provenance

Varieties

Dialects and standards.

Varieties

Varieties.

  1. How do Malaysian and Indonesian standards differ, and what are regional varieties such as Siak, Musi or Cocos Malay? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific variety? action
Status Status and policy.

Regulation.

Official

Official status.

Official

Status.

  1. What is the legal status of Malay in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Singapore? provenance
  2. How are language policies debated, with positions attributed? boundary

Councils

Language planning.

Councils

Language planning.

  1. Which bodies regulate Malay, and how do they coordinate spelling and terminology? provenance
  2. How are new words formed? provenance
History History and literature.

Context.

History

History of Malay.

History

History.

  1. How did Malay develop from Old Malay through Classical Malay to modern standards, and how did it become a lingua franca? provenance
  2. Which inscriptions and texts are landmarks? provenance

Literature

Literature.

Literature

Literature.

  1. What are the major works of Malay literature? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific work? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should Indonesian be a separate entry?
  • How should dictionaries be linked?
  • How should dialect surveys be linked?
Draft as JSON