Re: Malay language for 'Malayland'


Pan wrote:

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> Hmmm...Should we discuss this? How are we defining "bumiputera"? Would
> that be perhaps the people who are the second-oldest surviving people
> in a country? Because Malays are not aborigines. That said, Arabic is
> an official language in Israel, as is Malay in Singapore.

Hebrew is not the official language? That is something new to me. What
about in official government ceremony? Do they use Arabic language?

Rgds,

Mr Magoo

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