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The Malay language has many loanwords from Sanskrit, Persian, Tamil, Greek, Latin, Portuguese, Dutch, Siam (Old Thailand), Korean, Deutsch and Chinese languages such as Hokkien, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka. More recently, loans have come from Arabic, English and Malay's sister languages, Javanese and Sundanese.
This is a partial list of loanwords in English language, that were borrowed or derived, either directly or indirectly, from Malay language.Many of the words are decisively Malay or shared with other Malayic languages group, while others obviously entered Malay both from related Austronesian languages and unrelated languages of India and China.
Indonesian and Malaysian Malay both differ in the forms of loanwords used due to division of the Malay Archipelago by the Dutch and the British and their long-lasting colonial influences, as a consequence of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824: Indonesian absorbed primarily Dutch loanwords whereas Malaysian Malay absorbed primarily English words.
There are many Tamil loanwords in other languages. The Tamil language , primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka , has produced loanwords in many different languages, including Ancient Greek , Biblical Hebrew , English , Malay , native languages of Indonesia , Mauritian Creole , Tagalog , Russian , and Sinhala and Dhivehi .
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The English language has borrowed many words from other cultures or languages. For examples, see Lists of English words by country or language of origin and Anglicisation. Some English loanwords remain relatively faithful to the original phonology even though a particular phoneme might not exist or
In Malay, and are represented by é and e , otherwise respectively known as e taling and e pepet. [3] Indonesian also uses the vowel (spelled eu) in some loanwords from Sundanese and Acehnese, e. g. eurih, seudati, sadeu. [18]
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