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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:
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
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
Solutions for Malay
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