About Malay Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Malay is the official language of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. It is also spoken unofficially in many parts of Thailand. You will be surprised to know that the native speakers of this language exceed 290 million. There are around 260 million people in Indonesia alone who speak Malay. Standard Malay has many different names. It is also known as Court Malay. Speakers find it easy to distinguish this language from others. Malay is written in the Latin script but Arabic script is also a huge part of it. However, this Latin script is more common among people of Malaysia and Brunei. Since the 17th century, this language is inspired by Dutch and Britain. Jawi script was also replaced by Rumi script that is now officially used for many purposes. Malay features many non-native consonants that are borrowed from English and Arabic words.
About Chichewa Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Chewa is known as Nyanja, /ˈnjændʒə/) and is a Bantu language. It is spoken in many Southern, Southeast, and East Africa. It is widely spoken in Malawi and Zambia. It is the official language of Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Chichewa is still a minority language and is not a popular language. The noun class prefix chi- is used in many other languages as well. It is called Chichewa and is spelled as Cinianja in Mozambique. In Malawi, the name of the language in Chinyanja. It changed to Chichewa in 1968 because of the insistence of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda and the Chewa people. In Zambia, the language is known as Nyanja. Chewa belongs to the language group of the Tumbuka, Sena, and Nsenga.
