Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52603#.VJy5OcCAM4 Author(s) Asmah Haji Omar Affiliation(s) University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . ABSTRACT Malaysian indigenous languages are of two entirely different families: Austronesian and Austroasiatic. The former consists of Malay and all the languages of Sabah and Sarawak, while the latter the aboriginal languages found only in Peninsular Malaysia. Except for Malay and a few more in Sabah and Sarawak, most of these languages have not been put into writing. This means that no writing system has been ascribed to them, despite the fact that quite a number have been described in terms of phonology, morphology and sy...
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