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 Luxembourgish Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Luxembourgish is an old language that is used by French people. The total number of native speakers includes 600,000. It is recognized as a minority language in Belgium. This language is from the family of Indo-European and Germanic languages. Even though it is an old language there are a lot of French words and phrases incorporated in it. As a result, almost all the people in Luxembourg speak this language. However, the population of Luxembourg is either bilingual or trilingual. Traditionally Luxembourgish is used orally in the Governments and courts in Germany. It is also used in the most popular newspapers and magazines. Luxembourg features a Moselle-Franconian dialect and is spoken by some people in Germany. The writing system is Latin while the alphabets consist of 26 Latin letters too.
