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Malaya Rata is the mountainous areas of central Sri Lanka. It is also one of the three historical regions of the island of Sri Lanka , with Rajarata and Ruhunurata . Malaya Rata was historically known to house the natives tribes; Yaksha, Raksha, and to a certain extent the Naga.
From Malay agar-agar, first known use was in 1813. [3] Amok (also 'amuck' or 'amock') out of control, especially when armed and dangerous; in a frenzy of violence, or on a killing spree, 'berserk', as in 'to run amok'. Adopted into English via Portuguese amouco, from Malay amok ('rushing in a frenzy'). Earliest known use was in 1665 as a noun ...
Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]
Leydekker's Malay translation of the Book of Judges in the Jawi script (1733). This era also witnessed the growing interest among foreigners in learning the Malay language for the purpose of commerce, diplomatic missions and missionary activities. Therefore, many books in the form of word-list or dictionary were written.
Published in London in 1701 as “A Dictionary: English and Malayo, Malayo and English”, the first such dictionary included 597 pages of words and definitions, with accent marks added for pronunciation, a section on Malay grammar, and maps where the language was spoken, and became the standard reference work until the end of the 18th century ...
Malay (UK: / m ə ˈ l eɪ / mə-LAY, US: / ˈ m eɪ l eɪ / MAY-lay; [9] [10] Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore.
HMS Malaya, a Royal Navy battleship which served in both world wars; Operation Malaya, a police investigation taking place in Spain; Malaya, a 1949 American war film set in Japanese-occupied Malaya; Malaya, a 1961 documentary film produced by Malayan Film Unit (later Filem Negara Malaysia) Malaya, a newspaper in the Philippines
Henceforward Malay and English would be the only teaching languages in secondary schools, and state primary schools would teach in Malay only. Although the Chinese and Indian communities could maintain their own Chinese and Tamil -language primary schools, all their students were required to learn Malay, and to study an agreed "Malayan curriculum".