Bahasa Malaysia Map

Map is a wonderfully flexible tool to represent data, unlike photographs which tend to show all details -- whether you want them or not. Here, maps are used to help you to learn more about Bahasa Malaysia terms.

Bahasa Malaysia Map - Within Malaysia

• Gunung Kinabalu Size matters a lot in the case of Kinabalu. Anyone who puts his feet in the Malay world has to notice this mountain which name could be of Malay or, Dusun origin.
• Putrajaya is a combination of two auspicious words given to this relatively new administrative centre of Malaysia. Malaysians better know it!

The original administrative centre of Malaysia. "Kuala" is river mouth while " Lumpur" is ..."mud", put them together you get "River mouth of mud" as the capital of Malaysia! :-) We Malaysians prefer to call it "KL".

• Multimedia Super Corridor is a fancy name hmmm not really Malaysian. It was better known as Lembah Kelang before they stuffed the "best" fibre optics service in the country there. By the way, do you know its name in Bahasa Malaysia?
• Johor is where most Malaysian folks believe Standard Bahasa Malaysia is spoken. But you knowlah the "flip-flopping" habit of Malaysia makes it difficult for Wan to verify this popular belief.
• Baba Malays of Malacca, famous for their deliciousssssly spicy cuisine are also speakers of the largest group of Creole in Malaysia.
• Chitty -- Warning, this ain't "Chitty-chitty bang bang" grrr! They live in Malacca together with the Babas and their numbers are diminishing...
• Kelantan, closely associated with Thai speaks a version of Malay that is exotic even to the Malaysians.
• Sabah, the Borneo part of Malaysia is the home of speakers of Dusunic, Murutic, Paitanic and Bajau langauges. Malay language spoken there are Brunei Malay, Kedayan Malay and Cocos Malay.
• Perlis The Northernmost,smallest and exotic short stories about the origin of its name, Perlis Indera Kayangan.

Bahasa Malaysia Map -- Beyond Malaysia

• It's better to have a look at the family.To know a person better, we should know the family. Don't you think this should apply to Bahasa Malaysia as well? Malay language belongs to the big family of Austronesian languages in where you find many other related languages and similarities.

• Riau. They say that's where pure Malay is spoken. Riau and Johor were part of a glorious Malay empire until powerful colonialists tore them apart. Thus they went separate ways and established different 'households'. A careful look at Riau Malay reveals that the separation has caused Riau and Johor Malay to become different--in some ways.

  Bintan and Penyengat These two Riau islands south of Singapore were important centres of Malay culture and language.

• Brunei Its version of Malay is spoken in Sabah and is apparently making quite an impact. Proof? Where do you think Sabahans get their 'Bah' from...?

A map from abamalaysia.com

Malaysia Map the artistic version

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