{
 "id": "language/malay",
 "class": "language",
 "slug": "malay",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الملايوية",
  "en": "Malay"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "لغة ماليزيا وبروناي وجنوب تايلاند؛ كُتبت بالجاوي (حروف عربية) قرونًا، وبها تراث ديني وخطي غني.",
  "en": "Language of Malaysia, Brunei and southern Thailand; written in Jawi (Arabic script) for centuries, with a rich religious and courtly corpus."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "words"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "linguistics"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "language",
  "scripts": [
   "latin",
   "arabic (jawi)"
  ],
  "speakers_estimate": 30000000,
  "iso639": "ms",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q9237"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Wikidata + standard references",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), culture/language lane"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), 2026-10-16; speaker figures are rounded estimates"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "لغة ماليزيا وبروناي وجنوب تايلاند؛ كُتبت بالجاوي (حروف عربية) قرونًا، وبها تراث ديني وخطي غني. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "language/malay",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The language of Malaysia, Brunei and southern Thailand; written for centuries in Jawi (Arabic letters), with a rich religious and manuscript heritage. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "language/malay",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "language/amharic",
  "language/arabic",
  "language/bengali",
  "language/bosnian",
  "language/hausa",
  "language/indonesian",
  "language/kurdish",
  "language/pashto"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}