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Malay

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Malay is a member of the Austranesian of languages, which includes languages from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean. Many roots have come virtually unchanged from their common Austronesian ancestor. There are many cognates found in the languages' words for kinship, health, body parts and common animals. Numbers, especially, show remarkable similarities.Malay is part of a cluster of numerous closely related forms of speech known as the Malay languages, which were spread across Malaya and the Indonesian archipelago by Malay traders from Sumatra. the Bahasa Kebangsaan /Bahasa Melayu /Bahasa Malaysia (National Language) of Malaysia. Learn Basic Bahasa Melayu : English   = BM Numbers  =Nombor Zero               Kosong One                Satu Two                Dua Three              Tiga Four               Empat Five                Lima Six                  Enam Seven             Tujuh Eight               Lapan Nine               Sembi