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Malay alphabet and characters

The Malay alphabet should display only the following characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Latin scripts.

Lower-case characters:

Malay_lower

Upper-case characters

Malay grammar rules

Malay is an agglutinative language. 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.

Nouns

There is no grammatical gender. Number is not marked. Plurality can be expressed lexically by words such as ‘some’, or ‘all’, e.g., ‘some people’.

Verbs

Verbs are not inflected for person or tense. These functions are determined by time reference words, such as yesterday, next year, just now.

There is a three-way aspect distinction between action completed, action begun but not completed, and action not completed. These distinctions are represented by special markers. Voice and transitivity are marked by affixes. Mood is expressed by adverbs or other auxiliary words.

Malay formatting rules

Date formats

Short date format	dd/MM/yyyy
	e.g. 23/03/2016
Long date format	d MMMM yyyy
	e.g. 23 Mac 2016

Numbers

Malay capitalisation usage

Should be capitalised

Only the first letter in a sentence and proper nouns are capitalised. However, in some cases the first letter of each word is capitalised.

Should NOT be capitalised

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Decimal separator	. (period)
	e.g. 11.50
Thousand separator	, (coma)
	e.g. 2,000