Languages of Malaysia
See language map.[See also SIL publications on the languages of Malaysia.]
Malaysia. 25,653,000. National or official language: Malay [zsm]. Immigrant languages: Rohingya (100,000). Also includes languages of Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the United Kingdom. Information mainly from S. Wurm and S. Hattori 1981. Deaf population: 31,000 (1980). Deaf institutions: 5. The number of individual languages listed for Malaysia is 139. Of those, 137 are living languages and 2 have no known speakers.
| Malay | [msa]
A macrolanguage.
Population total all countries: 39,144,949.
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