Malay (Bahasa Malaysia) is the official language of Malaysia, as prescribed in Malaysia’s Federal Constitution. It is spoken by the majority of the population—theMalay people, which makes up about 70% of the country. It’s more than just a means of communication—a symbol of national unit...
spoken language in the country. In addition, Burmese is spoken in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, and the U.S. The total Burmese-speaking population of the world is estimated at slightly above 33 million people (in 2017). Another 10 million people speak it as a second language, particularly...
but this kind of language is discouraged at schools (3)___ only Malaysian Standard English (4)___ (teach). In Manglish, words from other languages are (5)___ (actual) rare except for just a handful of common non-English nouns and verbs in Malaysia. Therefore, the use of Manglish is...
According to Ethnologue, 7,151 languages are spoken in the world today. The distinction between a language and a dialect can be a contentious topic, though. Just ask someone on the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland if Scots is a language or a dialect of English! There’s also a difference be...
NATIVE languageMALAY languageLanguage shift and language maintenance as contact phenomena have received considerable attention in the realm of linguistics. The current study investigated the status of Rungus language, language of Rungus ethnic group in east Malaysia, to find out the sta...
According to Ethnologue, 7,151 languages are spoken in the world today. The distinction between a language and a dialect can be a contentious topic, though. Just ask someone on the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland if Scots is a language or a dialect of English! There’s also a difference be...
English is the most widely spoken language in the world. And of the roughly 1.5 billion speakers globally, the vast majority speak it as a second language. So where are the world’s best non-native English speakers? According to a new report by EF Education First, an international education...
In addition, silence is also viewed as a failure of language (Tannen, 1985 as cited in Jaworski, 2000) or as a chance for self- exploration (Allen, 1978). Nonetheless, silence conveys different values depending on cultures. Wong (2010), for instance, claimed that silence can be eclectic ...
Students of private universities in Bangladesh are often found to be less competent in spoken English. Since the universities have adopted EMI (English medium instruction) policy, the prevailing linguistic condition on the campus is an “English only env
①English is also spoken in Singapore and Malaysia and countries in Africa such as South Africa ②Children like sweet foods such as chocolate.③No one trusts ___a man ___ him.没人相信他那样的人。 1.such as 用于列举事物时放在所列举事物与前面的名词之间,且直接跟列举事物,无需逗号,它所列举...