Editing Malay language (section)

==Vocabulary==
{{Main|List of loanwords in Malay|List of loanwords in Indonesian}}
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The Malay language has many words borrowed from [[Arabic language|Arabic]] (in particular religious terms), [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], certain [[Sinitic languages]], [[Persian language|Persian]] (due to historical status of Malay Archipelago as a trading hub), and more recently, [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]] and [[English language|English]] (in particular many scientific and technological terms). [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]] has inclination toward [[Sanskrit]] in formulation of new words due to extensive [[Javanese language|Javanese]] and [[Balinese language|Balinese]] speaking community, while Malaysian and Bruneian Malay prefer [[Arabic]] as source for neologism due to acceptance of Islamic Arabic practices.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Omar |first=Asmah Haji |author-link=Asmah Haji Omar |date=2008 |title=MABBIM and the development of Malay minimizing geopolitical divergences |url=https://eprints.um.edu.my/8631/ |journal=Malay/Indonesian as a Language of Knowledge and Practical Communication: Appraisal, Challenges and the Future |language=en |location=Leiden, The Netherlands}}</ref> Arabic in Indonesian tends to reside in (Islamic) religious sphere.<ref name=":3" /> The presence of Sanskritised neologism in Malaysian and Bruneian Malay is a result of "importation" from Indonesian.<ref name=":3" /> Terminology for various subjects such as administration, business, and law was derived from the languages of respective colonial master, those are Dutch for Indonesian and English for Malaysian and Bruneian Malay.<ref name=":3" /> Although the rule for scientific terms development is agreed, the result can be differ because of (1) the difference in traditional vocabulary (such as Dutch vs English and Sanskritic Javanese vs Arabised Malay) and (2) the loan-shift difference on semantics and grammatical feature choice.<ref name=":3" /> The divergence between Indonesian and "Standard" Malay are systemic in nature and, to a certain extent, contribute to the way the two sets of speakers understand and react to the world, and are more far reaching with a discernible cognitive gap than the difference between dialects.<ref name=":3" />