Malay
ms · Melayu
Malay (ms) is written in the Latin script and has an estimated 36.8M speakers. It is an official language in Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore. CLDR has 8 locales for it.
Native nameMelayu
ScriptLatinLatn
Speakers36.8Mestimated
Countries4
Locales8
Plural forms1other
Overview
- Code
- ms
- Native name
- Melayu
- Script
- Latin Latn
- Likely region
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia
- Direction
- Left to right
- Plural categories
- other
- Ordinal categories
- one
- other
Where it is spoken
| Country | Status | Share of population |
|---|---|---|
| 🇧🇳 Brunei | Official | 93% |
| 🇲🇾 Malaysia | Official | 75% |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | Official | 14% |
| 🇮🇩 Indonesia | 3.4% |
Plural categories
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| other | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, … |