The issue is front-page news after the states of Sarawak and Sabah decided to promote the use of English in secondary schools. For Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, it is necessary to enhance the skills ...

In a small Malaysian village, some residents speak a language that linguists had never before identified. It has now been documented, under the name Jedek, by Swedish researchers. Linguists working in ...

PETALING JAYA: The International Symposium on Bahasa Melayu is the best platform to identify whatever obstacles in dignifying the Malay language thus making it one of the official languages of Asean, ...

Thu, April 7, 2022 Published on Apr. 6, 2022 Published on 2022-04-06T14:08:53+07:00 he government has rejected a proposal by Malaysia to promote the Malay language as an official language of ASEAN, ...

Geographically, Malaysia is situated within the vast stretch of the Malay Archipelago, the lingua franca of which is mainly the Malay language and its other acceptable variants. Every nation, for that ...

The prime minister recently lamented about how Malaysians, even the GLCs, use English rather than Malay for everything, even housing development names. As I sit here in my house in Taman Sonnet ...

Linguists working in the Malay Peninsula have identified a language, now called Jedek, that had not previously been recognized outside of the small group of people who speak it. The newly documented ...