Old Malay dialects is believed to be the actual ancestor of Classical Malay dialects.
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12 Facts About Malay dialects
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Old Malay dialects was influenced by Sanskrit, the literary language of Classical India and a liturgical language of Hinduism and Buddhism.
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Malay dialects language came into widespread use as the lingua franca of the Malacca Sultanate.
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Malay dialects was used solely as a lingua franca for inter-ethnic communications.
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Malay dialects is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, which includes languages from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia.
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Old Malay dialects was written using Pallava and Kawi script, as evident from several inscription stones in the Malay dialects region.
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The extent to which Malay dialects is used in these countries varies depending on historical and cultural circumstances.
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Malay dialects is an agglutinative language, and new words are formed by three methods: attaching affixes onto a root word, formation of a compound word, or repetition of words or portions of words.
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In Singapore, Malay dialects was historically the lingua franca among people of different nationalities.
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Besides Indonesian, which developed from the Malaccan dialect, there are many Malay dialects varieties spoken in Indonesia; they are divided into western and eastern groups.
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