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 Sesotho Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Sotho is a Southern Bantu language and is spoken in the Sotho-Tswana group. The language is spoken by the Basotho in Lesotho. It is the official and national language; South Africa is where. Sesotho is also one of the 11 official languages and is widely spoken in Zimbabwe. It is one of the 16 official languages in South Africa. It is similar to the Bantu languages and is a popular agglutinative language. The language uses numerous affixes and builds complete words. Sotho is a Southern Bantu language, and it belongs to the Niger-Congo language family. It is spoken within the Sotho-Tswana branch of Zone S (S.30). "Sotho" is spoken by the entire Sotho-Tswana group, and is called "Southern Sotho". Within the Sotho-Tswana group, it is closely related to Lozi (Silozi). It is very much similar to the Southern Bantu languages like Venda, Tsonga, Tonga, Lozi, and another native language of Zambia.