INTRODUCTION 2

1. PRONUNCIATION

The vowels and consonants mostly remain the same. For example in vowel U (( untuk ~ for ))  (( ular ~ snake )) are pronounced the same unlike in English, for example (( put, but, pure ))  the vowel U are read differently.

2. TENSES

Verbs are not inflected for person or number, and they are not marked for tense. Tense is instead denoted by time adverbs such as (( kelmarin ~ yesterday )) or by other tense indicators such as (( sudah ~ already )) and (( belum ~ not yet )) . On the other hand, there is a complex system of verb affixes to render nuances of meaning and to denote voice or intentional and accidental moods.

3. PLURALITY

There is no grammatical plural in Malay. You only need to repeat the word e.g. (( anak ~ child )) ~ (( anak-anak ~ children )), (( buku - book )) ~ (( buku-buku ~ books )). If you want to count something, you simply need to put the number without repeating the word e.g (( satu kerusi ~ one chair )) ~ (( lima kerusi ~ five chairs )).

4. GENDER

There is no grammatical gender and there are only a few words that use natural gender; the same word is used for he and she or for his and her. Gender does not give any change in verb formation.

5. WORD ORDER

Neutral word order in Malay is Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) like in English. However, other word orders are possible, depending on emphasis and style.

Refferences ;

http://en.wikipedia.org/

http://malay.pgoh13.com/ 

http://aboutworldlanguages.com