Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It has an official status in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. It is spoken by 270 million people across the Strait of Malacca, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, and has been established as a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in Borneo.
As the Bahasa Kebangsaan or Bahasa Nasional (National Language) of several states, Standard Malay has various official names. In Singapore and Brunei it is called Bahasa Melayu (Malay language); in Malaysia, Bahasa Malaysia (Malaysian language); and in Indonesia, Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) and is designated the Bahasa Persatuan/Pemersatu ("unifying language/lingua franca"). However, in areas of central to southern Sumatra where the language is indigenous, Indonesians refer to it as Bahasa Melayu and consider it one of their regional languages.
Standard Malay, also called Court Malay, was the literary standard of the pre-colonial Malacca and Johor Sultanates, and so the language is sometimes called Malacca, Johor, or Riau Malay (or various combinations of those names) to distinguish it from the various other Malayan languages.
Kelly & Walsh's handbook of the Malay language for the use of tourists and residents - Published 1919 - Read / Download
A Malay manual with grammar, reading exercises, and vocabularies - by Freese, John Henry, d. 1930; Seidel, A. (August), 1863-1916 - Published 1914 - Read / Download
A manual of the Malay language. With an introductory sketch of the Sanskrit element in Malay - by Maxwell, William Edward - Published 1914 - Read / Download
A practical Malay grammar - by Shellabear, W. G. (William Girdlestone), 1862-1947 - Published 1912 - Read / Download
Malay grammar - by Winstedt, Richard Olof, Sir, 1878-1966; Wilkinson, R. J. (Richard James) - Published 1913 - Read / Download
Malay self-taught by the natural method : with phonetic pronunciation - Abdul Majid, 1892-1977 - Published 1920 - Read / Download
An Intermediate-Advanced Level Malay Refresher Course (ERIC) - Read/ Download
An English-Malay dictionary - by Shellabear, William Girdlestone, Published 1916 - Read / Download
An abridged Malay-English dictionary (romanized) by Wilkinson, R. J. - Published 1908 - Read / Download
A grammar and dictionary of the Malay language : with a preliminary dissertation by Crawfurd, John, 1783-1868 - Published 1852 - Read / Download
Vocabulary of the English and Malay languages - by Swettenham, Frank Athelstane - Read / Download
Phonology of Standard Malay - by Phoible Project - Read / Download
Malay phonetics - by Fokker, Abraham Anthony, 1862-1927 - Published 1895 - Read / Download
Indonesian Basic Course - by ERIC - Published 1966 - Read / Download
Beginning Indonesian (Preliminary Edition). Volumes 1-5 - by ERIC - Published 1967 - Read / Download