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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.
More recently, the best-known example is the prolific numbers of kango coined during the Meiji era on the model of Classical Chinese to translate modern concepts imported from the West; when coined to translate a foreign term (rather than simply a new Japanese term), they are known as yakugo (訳語, translated word, equivalent).
Malaysian Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 马来西亚华语; traditional Chinese: 馬來西亞華語; pinyin: Mǎláixīyà Huáyǔ) is a variety of the Chinese language spoken in Malaysia by ethnic Chinese residents. It is currently the primary language used by the Malaysian Chinese community [1]
Lí 2SG 去 khì go 買 bué buy 有 ū have 錶仔 pió-á watch 無？ --bô? no 汝 去 買 有 錶仔 無？ Lí khì bué ū pió-á --bô? 2SG go buy have watch no "Did you go to buy a watch?" As in many east Asian languages, classifiers are required when using numerals, demonstratives and similar quantifiers. Choice of grammatical function words also varies significantly among the ...
A Balinese statuette of a woman made from Chinese cash coins. According to a popular legend Chinese cash coins (Balinese: Pis Bolong) were introduced to Bali around the year 12 AD when the ancient Balinese King Sri Maharaja Aji Jayapangus married the Han dynasty princess Kang Cin Wei and the princess asked the King if Chinese cash coins could become a part of all rituals in Bali, which at the ...
Loloan Malays or Balinese Malays (Malay: Melayu Loloan; Jawi: ملايو لولون ; Balinese: ᬮᭀᬮᭀᬯᬦ᭄) are a sub-ethnic group of the Malay who have lived in East Loloan and West Loloan villages, Jembrana, Bali, Indonesia, since the 17th century. [3] There are approximately 28,000 Loloan Malays living in Bali. [4]
Traditional Chinese characters continue to be used for ceremonial, cultural, scholarly/academic research, and artistic/decorative purposes. [12] In the People's Republic of China, traditional Chinese characters are standardised according to the Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters. [13]
View a machine-translated version of the Chinese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.