Malay is an Austronesian language of maritime Southeast Asia. It is official in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore, and Indonesian, the national language of Indonesia, is a standardised form of the same language, developed from Malay in the twentieth century. Counted together, the Malay-Indonesian group has well over 200 million speakers, a large share of them second-language users, since Malay served for centuries as the trading lingua franca of the region. The modern language is written in the Latin alphabet, known as Rumi, while the Arabic-derived Jawi script survives in religious and cultural use and holds co-official status in Brunei. Regional dialects vary considerably between the Malay peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.
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