Mohd Nor Azan Abdullah and Suhaila Abdul Muin and Philiadiran Philip (2025) The internationality image of the Malay language through the existence of Arabo, Sino-Tibetan and Dravidian peripheral lexis in the Malay language. Issues in Language Studies, 14 (1). pp. 74-90.
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Abstract
Arabo, Sino-Tibetan, and Dravidian peripheral lexis can demonstrate the internationality of the Malay language, establishing it as one of the world’s most critical languages. One can research it through the history of the inclusion of non-Austronesian languages, such as the assimilation of Arabic from the Semitic language family, the assimilation of Chinese lexis, which is in the branch of the Sino-Tibetan family and Tamil language in the Dravidian language family, which is used as Malay lexis. The approach used in this study involves conducting a literature review and performing content analysis that is described in the basic descriptive. In this analysis, the researchers verified a lot of assimilated lexis, especially from non-Austronesian languages such as Arabic, Sino-Tibetan and Dravidian, used in spoken and written Malay adapted according to the Malay language. Accordingly, it verified that the non-Austronesian lexicons have been assimilated and adapted as Malay lexicons. Hence, this assimilation of Arabo, Sino-Tibetan and Dravidian lexis authenticated the internationality image of the Malay language, in which, through the assimilation of the foreign lexis, it recognised Malay to be the dominant language, the language of diplomacy, and global knowledge.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword: | Lexis, Language flexibility, Assimilation, Internationality, The Malay language |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania > PL1-8844 Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania > PL5001-7511 Languages of Oceania > PL5001-7101 Austronesian, Papuan, and Australian languages > PL5051-5497 Malayan (Indonesian) languages |
| Department: | CENTRE > Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge and Language Learning |
| Depositing User: | SITI AZIZAH BINTI IDRIS - |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2025 10:51 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2025 10:51 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/44996 |
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