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  2. English and Malayo Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Published in London in 1701 as “A Dictionary: English and Malayo, Malayo and English”, the first such dictionary included 597 pages of words and definitions, with accent marks added for pronunciation, a section on Malay grammar, and maps where the language was spoken, and became the standard reference work until the end of the 18th century ...

  3. List of loanwords in Malay - Wikipedia

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    Malay as spoken in Malaysia (Bahasa Melayu) and Singapore, meanwhile, have more borrowings from English. [1] There are some words in Malay which are spelled exactly the same as the loan language, e.g. in English – museum (Indonesian), hospital (Malaysian), format, hotel, transit etc.

  4. List of English words of Malay origin - Wikipedia

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    a unit of weight used in China and South-East Asia equal to 100 catties (approx. 133 lb, 60.4 kg). Earliest use was from the late 16th century, in the work of a translator, Robert Parke (fl. 1588–1589). Derived from Malay pÄ«kul, a load as heavy as an ordinary man can lift, 100-catty weight. [99] Proa (also 'prahu' or 'prau')

  5. Iban language - Wikipedia

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    A Sea Dyak Dictionary, published in 1900, was important in the early development of the Iban as a written language. [34] During the Crown Colony era, the Borneo Literature Bureau also worked on the written form of the Iban language. [6] From 1947 to 1962, Dunging anak Gunggu invented an Iban syllabary known as the Dunging script.

  6. Malay - Wikipedia

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    Malay trade and creole languages, a set of pidgin languages throughout the Sumatra, Malay Peninsula and the entire Malay archipelago; Brunei Malay, a variety of the Malay language spoken in Brunei, distinct from standard Malay; Kedah Malay, a variety of the Malay languages spoken in Malaysia and Thailand

  7. Manglish - Wikipedia

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    Manglish is an informal form of Malaysian English with features of an English-based creole principally used in Malaysia.It is heavily influenced by the main languages of the country, Malay, Tamil, and varieties of Chinese.

  8. Comparison of Indonesian and Standard Malay - Wikipedia

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    The relatively large share of Islamic (Arabic or Persian) loan words shared by Malaysian Malay and Indonesian often poses no difficulty in comprehension and usage, although some forms may have developed a (slightly) different meaning or have become obsolete either in Malaysian Malay or in Indonesian, e.g. khidmat, wakil. [citation needed]

  9. Kristang language - Wikipedia

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    To indicate verb tenses, the following appositions are used: jah (i.e. from the Portuguese já, meaning "already", or controversially a corruption of Malay dah, shortened version of sudah, also "already") for past tenses; ta (from está, which means "is") for present continuous tenses and logu or lo (from logo, which means "soon") for the ...