The Malay Language (Bahasa Melayu)

This video is all about the Malay language (Bahasa Melayu), one of the most most important languages in Southeast Asia. Thanks to Anwarul Adzizi Adeni for volunteering to read the Malay sentences!

Special thanks to: BJ Peter DeLaCruz, Michael Cuomo, Nicholas Shelokov, Sebastian Langshaw, Brandon Gonzalez, Brian Michalowski, Adrian Zhang, Vadim Sobolev, Yixin Alfred Wong, Raymond Thomas, Simon Blanchet, Ryan Marquardt, Sky Vied, Romain Paulus, Panot, Erik Edelmann, Bennet, James Zavaleta, Ulrike Baumann, Ian Martyn, Justin Faist, Jeff Miller, Stephen Lawson, Howard Stratton, George Greene, Panthea Madjidi, Nicholas Gentry, Sergios Tsakatikas, Bruno Filippi, Sergio Tsakatikas, Qarion, Pedro Flores, Raymond Thomas, Marco Antonio Barcellos Junior, David Beitler, Rick Gerritzen, Sailcat, Mark Kemp, Éric Martin, Leo Barudi, and Piotr Chmielowski for their generous Patreon support.

Music

Intro: "Club Step" by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Main #1: “Melancholy” by Gunnar Olsen
Main #2: "Alien Restaurant" by Kevin Macleod
Outro: "Deep Hat" by Vibe Tracks

[cydeus]

I'm Vietnamese, and I have to say "wow, I can know what will come next in the sentence". Malay Language has the same grammar as Vietnamese. That's so cool! Maybe I'll try to learn Bahasa Melayu someday :))

[HermanMuda]

I was born and raised in southern Thailand, Sungai Golok, near the Malaysian border, Kelantan. In the past, it was the same country, but now it's seperated. I went to Thai school until the university, but at home we speak Kelantanese and I know how to speak the standard Malay since we live close to Kelantan, Malaysia and also have relatives live there. However, the Melayu ethnics in Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala (Southern Thailand) speaks their own Melayu dialects which are now the mixtures of bahasa Melayu, Thai, Indonesia and some other loan words. At the present time, I've been working in Malaysia university as a Mandarin lecturer for almost 7 years. ;-)

[sipembaca]

Look at this

Ajar - teach
Mengajar - teaching
Pengajar - instructor (or teacher but we call teacher Guru/Cikgu)
Belajar - study/learn
Pengajaran - Moral value

[nobodys-somebody]

No gender, no cases, no verb conjugation, intuitive prepositions, well-structured affixes...
People who struggle to learn any European language with hundreds of irregular verbs and 10+ verb tenses: 'IS THIS THE REAL LIFE? IS THIS JUST FANTASY?'

[naingchanmyae]

I really love the part when he said ‘There is no grammatical gender’ and start dancing. I am glad too.

[kotarojujo]

Buat orang2 indonesia yang liat video ini, daripada komen ribut sama malaysia, baca sejarah nya lagi tentang bahasa indonesia. Sebelum sumpah pemuda, disebut nya emang bahasa melayu kok. Akar bahasa indonesia dan malaysia sekarang itu bahasa melayu johor-riau yang jadi lingua franca di regional nusantara.

Nah, setelah 1900an. Bahasa melayu di daerah jajahan hindia belanda (Indonesia sekarang) dan jajahan inggris (malaya, malaysia sekarang) mulai berpisah dari akar mereka bahasa melayu johor-riau.

Setelah itu bahasa melayu di daerah jajahan belanda mulai di standarkan, dikenal dengan ejaan van ophuijsen. Sedangkan melayu di malaya distandarkan oleh inggris yang dikenal dengan ejaan wilkinson. Nah, melayu ejaan van ophujsen ini yang jadi akar bahasa indonesia sekarang dan ejaan wilkinson yang jadi akar bahasa melayu malaysia sekarang.

Jadi buat kalian yang ngotot kalo bahasa indonesia bukan bahasa melayu. Enggak, bahasa indonesia tetep bagian dari bahasa melayu. Jadi jangan ribut2 lagi sama netizen malaysia ya guys :)

[afandichelae]

I'm Thai. I speak Malay is first Language. I'm from Southern of Thailand^^

[Njbh]

I'm a Bruneian and we don't pronounce Brunei, "Brunei". We pronounce it "Broon-EYE".

[graceng]

I am a Malaysian and I am so impressed by the details of your lesson on our language. I am now a subscriber and look forward to going through your other videos!

[kaizer]

the hardest thing about malay for me is how there are SO MANY words for one verb eg:

'CARRY' in english.
MEMBAWA - carry/bring. MENGANDAR - carry on a stick. - carry in a bag/bucket. MENJUNJUNG - carry on the head. MENGALAS - carry on your back.... etc etc

[diqyade]

I'm teaching some malay language in my channel in japanese, and this video helps me alot on explaning malay's grammar and stuff. thanx ;)

[cherrynsa]

We should thank him for doing some research for us Malays (no matter which country). Thank you so much 😊

[averagelife]

Look at the comment... this guy is nice enuf to introduce Bahasa Malaysia in this channel, be gentle guys... ofcoz there is a loop here and there... what do u expected?. He’s doing great by explaining the details

[manaphjabdullah]

Kepada seluruh orang Melayu janganlah merasa rendah diri terhadap bahasa Melayu. Biarlah bahasa Melayu itu berdiri sama tinggi dengan bahasa2 lain di dunia...

[TheMarches]

'Brunei' is indeed pronounced as 'Brunai'. "-ei" is the old or non-standard spelling. Another example would be 'sungei' for 'river' but pronounced as 'sungai' (which is also the current spelling).

[honantong]

Tried to learn German for years.. no progress. Probably have to do with me being 36. But been laughing all my way following this videos description of malay. Such a good language..👏👏👏👏👏
1. Same alfabet as English
2. Simple pronunciation
3. Grammar rules

[rasisdegreat]

As a Malaysian, I couldn't be more proud after watching this video...

Have a like from me my dear buddy

[zify]

You totally did NOT butcher 'Brunei'! We Bruneians pronounce it as 'Broon-EYE', too! Aside from that, amazingly informative video!

[deadaf]

Hahaha i like how foreigners are so formal when speaking malay yet we native malay speakers speak broken malay😂😂😂

[Que]

Me *Come to Malaysia*
Me *Encounter City Malaysian at Kuala Lumpur that speak normal Malaysian language*
Also Me *Traveled to Terengganu*
Me *Ah shit where did I put my dialect dictionary..*