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Arabic is the language of the Quran and is used by Islamic scholars in Brunei. The official religion of Brunei is Islam [39] and as such, all adherents of the faith possess some proficiency in reading and speaking Arabic. [citation needed] Arabic is taught in schools, particularly religious schools.
The official language of Brunei is Standard Malay, for which both the Latin alphabet and the Arabic alphabet are used. [181] Initially, Malay was written in the Jawi script before it switched to the Latin alphabet around 1941. [182] The principal spoken language is Melayu Brunei (Brunei Malay).
Country Region Population Status India Asia 1,367,703,110 [1]: Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English.Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India.
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[12] [13] [14] The Indonesian language is primarily used in commerce, administration, education and the media, and thus nearly every Indonesian speaks the language to varying degrees of proficiency. [15] Most Indonesians speak other languages, such as Javanese, as their first language. [2] This makes plurilingualism a norm in Indonesia. [15]
The anthem is sung in Malay, the national language of the country. It was written by Pengiran Haji Muhammad Yusuf bin Pengiran Abdul Rahim, better known by his pen name Yura Halim, and composed by Haji Besar bin Sagap in 1947. [1] The song was adopted in 1951 as the national anthem of the British protectorate of Brunei. [1]
Standard Malay, the language spoken by the ethnic Malays, who make up over 65% of Brunei's population, [1] is the official language of Brunei. [2] However, the most widely spoken language in Brunei is Brunei Malay, which differs greatly from Standard Malay in areas like pronunciation, lexis and syntax. [3]