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 Samoan Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Samoan is the official language of the Samoan Islands that comprises Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa. It is also the official language in both jurisdictions. Samoan is a Polynesian language where a population of 260,000 people currently reside. The writing system is of Latin Samoan alphabet and Samoan braille. The native speakers of Samoan include 510,000. If we talk about the vowel length it is phonemic in Samoan. It features five different vowels and has a long form that is denoted by a macron. For example, Tama means a child or a little boy while Tama means father. A lot of foreign words are included in Samoan phonology. The verbs are formed from nouns that will generally end with a. Just like many other Austronesian languages, Samoan features singular, dual, and plural.
