馬拉話

Chinese

		Malay; Malaysia	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (馬拉話)		馬拉	話
simp. (马拉话)		马拉	话

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maa⁵ laai¹ waa^6-2

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maa⁵ laai¹ waa^6-2
    • Yale: máh lāai wá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maa⁵ laai¹ waa^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: ma⁵ lai¹ wa^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maː¹³ laːi̯⁵⁵ waː²²⁻³⁵/

Noun

馬拉話

1. (Cantonese) (spoken) Malay language
   • 1895, Wong Su King, An English and Chinese Dictionary: Compiled from General Miscellaneous Important Terms, Business Letters, Bills, Documents, and the Tariff of Imports and Outports of China, and Bills of Ladings, page 68:

     將呢的譯轉嗎孻話 [Cantonese, trad.]
     将呢的译转吗𡥧话 [Cantonese, simp.]

     zoeng¹ ni¹ di¹ jik⁶ zyun³ maa⁵ laai¹ waa^6-2 [Jyutping]

     Translate this into Malay.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 馬來語 (“the Malay language”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		馬來語, 馬來文
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	馬來語
	Malaysia	馬來語, 馬來話, 馬來文, 巫語, 巫文, 國語, 國文
	Singapore	馬來語, 馬來話, 馬來文, 巫語
Cantonese	Hong Kong	馬拉話, 馬拉文
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	馬拉話
	Singapore (Guangfu)	馬拉話
Southern Min	Penang (Hokkien)	番仔話, 番仔
	Singapore (Hokkien)	番仔話, 番仔
	Manila (Hokkien)	馬來話
	Singapore (Teochew)	番囝話

See also

• 馬拉文／马拉文