Malaysia Maps and Malay Alphabet in Photos

The official language of Singapore is Malay. Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. Malay is the national language of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei. It is spoken by forty million people across the Malacca Strait and along the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. Before getting into the the Malay language, a language I do not know a thing about, one should first be familiar with the area where it is spoken. I think that understanding the geography of an area is an important part of knowing a language. Each time I studied a language in college, I had to learn about the country as well. So here are some Maps of Areas where this major world language is spoken.