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Malay (Bahasa Malaysia) is an official language of Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore. There are about 23 million speakers. Malay belongs to the Western Malayo-Polynesian group of the Austronesian family of languages, which also includes the languages of Indonesia and the Philippines. Malay is normally written using Latin alphabet, although a modified Arabic script also exists.
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This dictionary was made by Moosa Abdulla. Many thanks also to Wu-Kung Sun for sending us an update.
List status: © Moosa Abdulla
Malay > English: 9,926 words
English > Malay: 10,471 words
Last update: April 5, 2020
First upload: August 20, 2007
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