Malay

• Alternate names: Bahasa Malayu, Colloquial Malay, Informal Malay, Local Malay, Malayu Also: in Singapore -- Colloquial Malay, Local Malay, Malayu; in United States -- Colloquial Malay, Local Malay, Malayu; in Indonesia -- Bahasa Daerah, Bahasa Melayu, Malayu
• Scriptures published: See below
• Literacy: No information available.
• Primary country: Malaysia
• Region: Widespread in Peninsular Malaysia, parts of Sarawak
• Also used in: Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, , United Arab Emirates, United States
• Religion: No information available.
• Status: De facto language of provincial identity in Indonesia; Statutory national language in Singapore
• Number of users: 15,848,500 (10,500,000; 414,000; 10,700 in United States (2000 census); 4,910,000 in Indonesia (2000 census))

(data from Ethnologue and other sources)

Scripture

• Faith Comes by Hearing:
• Forum of Bible Agencies International: Find a Bible in Malay
• World Bibles: all known Scripture available in Malay on the web
• Joshua Project: Malay — facts and resources

Other

• ScriptSource: writing systems of the world
• Ethnologue entry for Malay — detailed linguistic information.