• Papuan Malay or Irian Malay is a Malay-based creole language spoken in the Indonesian part of New Guinea. It emerged as a contact language among tribes...
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  • orthography. Papuan Malay or Irian Malay is a Malay-based creole language spoken in the Indonesian part of New Guinea. It emerged as a contact language among...
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    The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The most prominent member is Malay, a pluricentric...
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  • several Malay-based creole languages, such as Betawi, Cocos Malay, Makassar Malay, Ambonese Malay, Dili Malay, Kupang Malay, Manado Malay, Papuan Malay, Pattani...
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    the world after Papua New Guinea. Most languages belong to the Austronesian language family, while there are over 270 Papuan languages spoken in eastern...
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    Austronesian languages along parts of the coast, and recently developed creoles such as Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Unserdeutsch, and Papuan Malay. The term "Papuan" is...
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  • known Papuan language and was relatively unusual among such languages in being the language of a maritime trading state, though contemporary Papuan trading...
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  • Malaysian Malay are two standardised varieties of the Malay language, the former used officially in Indonesia (and in Timor Leste as a working language) and...
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    languages such as Māori and Hawaiian The various Aboriginal Australian language families, including the large Pama–Nyungan family The various Papuan language...
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  • administration. The language has been a source of lexical and grammatical borrowing for North Moluccan Malay, the local variant of Malay, which has given...
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  • Serui Malay is a variety of the Papuan Malay language native to parts of the Indonesian province of Papua. It is spoken in the city of Serui and other...
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    Brunei Malay language, also called Bruneian Malay language (Malay: Bahasa Melayu Brunei; Jawi: بهاس ملايو بروني), is the most widely spoken language in Brunei...
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    Kelantan-Pattani Malay (Malay: bahasa Melayu Kelantan/Patani; Thai: ภาษายาวี; baso Taning in Pattani; kecek Klate in Kelantan) is an Austronesian language of the...
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    the national language of Indonesia, is a standardized form of Riau Malay. There were numerous kingdoms associated with the Indonesian Malays along with...
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  • Bacan Malay or Bacan is a Malayic language spoken on the island of Bacan in North Maluku province, Indonesia, by the minor Bacan ethnic group. It is an...
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    East Malaysia), Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines. The term is largely synonymous with Maritime Southeast Asia. The term "Malay Archipelago" was...
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    Malaysia) Manado Malay (850,000, Indonesia) North Moluccan Malay (700,000, Indonesia) Baba Malay (500,000, Indonesia and Malaysia) Papuan Malay (500,000, Indonesia)...
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  • Austronesian and Papuan family are spoken, so most of its vocabulary is influenced by the surrounding languages. Malay and other Sulawesi languages indicated...
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  • Malaysian Malay (Malay: Bahasa Melayu Malaysia), also known as Standard Malay (Bahasa Melayu standard), Bahasa Malaysia (lit. 'Malaysian language'), or simply...
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  • a Papuan language of Nimboran District, Jayapura Regency, Indonesia spoken by mostly older adults. Younger generations have shifted to Papuan Malay. It...
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    four varieties of Papuan Malay that can be identified, including Serui Malay. A variety of Papuan Malay is spoken in Vanimo, Papua New Guinea near the...
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    However, Papuan Malay is used as the lingua franca of the province, both as a trade language and in inter-ethnic communication. Papuan Malay is considered...
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    Melanesians (category Ethnic groups in Papua New Guinea)
    Solomon Islands Pijin, Bislama, and Papuan Malay. The original inhabitants of the group of islands now of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands were...
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  • Banjarese (basa Banjar; jaku Banjar, Jawi: باس بنجر‎) is an Austronesian language predominantly spoken by the Banjarese—an indigenous ethnic group native...
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    few "Papuan" (Non-Austronesian) families of the central and eastern Malay Archipelago: such as the Timor-Alor-Pantar and North Halmahera languages, and...
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  • is a Papuan language of Alor Island in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. Although Kafoa speakers refer to both themselves and their language with the...
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    of a Malay race was originally proposed by the German physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), and classified as a brown race. Malay is a loose...
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  • non-Austronesian (Papuan) languages of the Alor–Pantar family which are also spoken in this region. It is also distinct from Alor Malay, a Malay variety which...
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  • structures of indigenous languages. Muslims and Christian speakers tend to make different choices in vocabulary. Papuan Malay, a Malay creole spoken in the...
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    indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...
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