Malay language by Hiranyan Ravichandran

Hmmmm......

Malaysia, a country of more than 100 languages such as Malay, Chinese, Tamil,.......

But the national language is only. Which is the Malay or Bahasa Malaysia 

Malay (Malay: Bahasa Melayu, بهاس ملايو‎) is an Austronesian language spoken in Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia and as well as parts of Thailand. A language of the Malays, it is spoken by 290 million people across the Strait of Malacca, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia and has been established as a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in Borneo. It is also used as a trading language in the southern p

Philippines, including the southern parts of the Zamboangga Peninsula, the Sulu Archipelago and the southern predominantly Muslim-inhabited municipalities of Bataraza and Balabac in Palawan. 

Malay is now written using the Latin Script (Rumi), although an Arabic Script called Arab Melayu or Jawi also exists. Rumi is official in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Malay uses Hindu-Arabic numerals.

Rumi and Jawi are co-official in Brunei only. Names of institutions and organisations have to use Jawi and Rumi (Latin) scripts. Jawi is used fully in schools, especially the Religious School, Sekolah Agama, which is compulsory during the afternoon for Muslim students aged from around 6–7 up to 12–14.

Malay is not a tonal language like Sino-Tibetan Languages like Mandarin, Cantonese,.... And its using the alphabet system and latin script. So it's easy for those who learning Malay...

And another surprising fact in Malay is that most of the Malay words are rooted from English, Arabic, Tamil, Chinese, Dutch, Portuguese and Sanskrit.

Here are some examples:

ENGLISH~MALAY

Clinic~Klinik 

ARABIC~MALAY

أهل / ahl (member)~ Ahli

TAMIL~MALAY 

 கப்பல்/kappal(boat)~ Kapal

CHINESE~MALAY

足够 / zúgòu(enough)~ Cukup

And so on....

It's really fun and easy to learn Malay.

Here are some useful phrases for you: 

Selamat pagi: Good Morning 

Selamat malam: Good night

Apa khabar?: How are you?

Saya dari Singapura: I am from Singapore