MALAYSIAN LANGUAGES

Malaysia is a multiracial country. Malaysia has a population of Malays, Chinese, Indians and other ethnic groups. Malaysia is unique because of its diversity of races, religions and cultures, the stability of the country and many places of interests. By this different race, so different language is spoken by all the Malaysian. However, with the Perlembagaan Persekutuan Malaysia,all the Malaysian agree that Bahasa Malaysia as the lingua franca of Malaysia.

MOTHER TONGUE IN MALAYSIA

A language is a system for encoding and decoding information. Malaysia is a multiracial country which has many languages such as Bahasa Malaysia, English, Tamil, Chinese and more. The Malay is the largest ethic group in Malaysia. Therefore, Bahasa Malaysia has become the mother tongue in Malaysia.

MALAY LANGUAGES
Not only Malaysian spoken Malay language, but all Malay people who reside in the Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands and other country also use it. This language also similar to local language in Indonesia, know as Bahasa Indonesia.

ENGLISH LANGUAGES
The national languages is Bahasa Malaysia (MalayLanguage). However, automatically English has become the second languages. This is because we has been widely spoke and used English language in Malaysia. English Language being a compulsory subject in primary schools, lower and upper secondary school and the local version of '0' level examinations. It also is the main languages spoken in colleges and universities. Beside that, English is the languages of private business and tourism in Malaysia. When the tourist visit Malaysia country, it is easy for the Malaysian to communicate with them. By speaking English, we also can improve our English languages pronunciation. Nowadays, English is very important. So we must improve our pronunciation, listening and writing in English. Official languages is Bahasa Malaysia and English. It is important to learn English languages as the English is the lingua franca of the Internet.

OTHER LANGUAGES
The Chinese and Indians, two of the largest minority groups, speak a number of languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Tamil, Malayalam, and Punjabi. There are a lots of dialect use by the Chinese and Indian in Malaysia. Examples for Chinese dialect is Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan and Foo Chow. For the Indian is Tamil, Malayalam and Panjabi. In East Malaysia, there are several indigenous language. Most widely spoken are Thai language, Iban language and Kadazan language.

It is compulsory for Malaysians to learn Bahasa Malaysia and English at school. But for Chinese and Indians learn Mandarin and Tamil at school respectively. Apart from that, Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien are also widely spoken by the Chinese. Meanwhile, the Ibans and the Khadazans in Sabah and Sarawak also learn their native languages at school. Nowadays, Malay and Indian parents also allow their children to learn Mandarin because Mandarin has become important in the cooperate world.

SUMMARY

While growing up, children are educated in the same schools and will eventually work in the same offices. Beside that, a few will marry outside their own ethnicity. Therefore, as a Malaysian, we have to know all about the differences of ethic in Malaysia such as their lifestyles, their beliefs and also their language. Despite the ethnic differences there are commonalities culturally speaking. Therefore, it is good for us to know all the language in Malaysia. So, we can communicate with different ethnics by using different language.