| Bahasa Melayu (official), English, Chinese dialects
(Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow),
Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai; note - in addition,
in East Malaysia several indigenous languages are spoken,
the largest are Iban and Kadazan
As a result of the different races gathered in this
country, many different languages are spoken. Bahasa
Melayu (the Malay language) is the predominant language
but English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, Tamil
and Hindi are also widely spoken.
Also peculiar to Malaysians is "Manglish" or Malaysian
English - a curious combination of all the different
languages spoken in Malaysia and English. One thing
you must bring home from Malaysia is the knowledge of
when to properly place the "lah".
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