Austronesian family
Malay
1850 CE – today Living
Malay (1850 CE – today) is a living Austronesian language. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → Old Malay → Classical Malay → Malay.
See Malay on the interactive map- Speakers
- 80M (80,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- zsm
- Glottocode
- stan1306
Modern Malay, including the Malaysian, Bruneian and Singaporean standards and regional varieties. Indonesian is tracked as a separate node. Speaker count is an approximate L1 figure; estimates vary widely.
Lineage
- Proto-Austronesianc. 3,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
- Old Malay683 CE – 1400 CE
- Classical Malayc. 1400 CE – 1850 CE
- Malay1850 CE – today
Sister languages 1
Also descended from Classical Malay.