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4 days ago · A Malay pidgin called Bazaar Malay ( mĕlayu pasar, “market Malay”) was widely used as a lingua franca in the East Indian archipelago and was the basis of the colonial language used in Indonesia by the Dutch. The version of Bazaar Malay used in Chinese merchant communities in Malaysia is called Baba Malay. Languages or dialects closely ...
1 day ago · Brunei Malay is rather divergent from standard Malay and the rest of the Malay dialects, being about 84% cognate with standard Malay, and is mostly mutually intelligible with it. [182] English is widely used as a business and official language and it is spoken by a majority of the population in Brunei.
4 days ago · Amharic is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Southwest Semitic group and is related to Geʽez, or Ethiopic, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox church; Amharic is written in a slightly modified form of the alphabet used for writing the Geʽez language. There are 34 basic characters, each of which has seven forms depending on which ...
23 hours ago · A return flight from Heathrow to Singapore costs from £604 with Finnair, which flies between Heathrow and Helsinki up to five times daily and between Helsinki and Singapore daily. Doubles at the ...
5 days ago · A Step Towards Unity: The ‘Type C’ Conversation and Malaysia’s Path to Racial Harmony. As Malaysia continues to find its multicultural identity, incidents like the one involving DarSA Fried Chicken remind us of the work to be done. The challenge for Malaysia lies in transcending these historical grievances and stereotypes.
3 days ago · Khmer ( / kəˈmɛər / kə-MAIR; [3] ខ្មែរ, UNGEGN: Khmêr [kʰmae]) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people, and the official and national language of Cambodia. Khmer has been influenced considerably by Sanskrit and Pali, especially in the royal and religious registers, through Hinduism and Buddhism.
4 days ago · The 31-year-old took to her Instagram Story to explain why she didn’t take the name of the designer who is of Chinese descent. “First and first, when I was on the red carpet, I was very scared,” Cardi B wrote, adding, “The dress was supposed to be on a little podium, and I’ve been practicing how to pose on the podium.
