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 Sundanese Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Sundanese is pronounced as basa sÊŠnda. It is a Malayo-Polynesian language that is spoken by Sundanese people. It has got 40 million native speakers in the western part of Java. They represent about 15% of the total population. You will be surprised to know that Sundanese has a lot of dialects. It includes western, northern, southern, mid-east, and northeast dialects. The Priangan dialect covers the largest areas of the Sundanese language. It is also taught in elementary schools and other forms of education. This language is written in different writing systems if we look at history. The old Sundanese script is also full of this writing script. If we talk about the Pegon script it is still commonly used among other options. There are around 18 consonants in Sundanese phonology.
