Malay is a member of the Austranesian of languages, which includes languages from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean. Many roots have come virtually unchanged from their common Austronesian ancestor. There are many cognates found in the languages' words for kinship, health, body parts and common animals. Numbers, especially, show remarkable similarities.Malay is part of a cluster of numerous closely related forms of speech known as the Malay languages, which were spread across Malaya and the Indonesian archipelago by Malay traders from Sumatra. the Bahasa Kebangsaan /Bahasa Melayu /Bahasa Malay(National Language) of Malaysia and similar with Indonesia Learn Basic Bahasa Melayu : English = BM Numbers =Nombor Zero Kosong One Satu Two ...