Bernama.com, 3 Sep 2008, Zakaria Abdul Wahab
SINGAPORE, Sept 3 (Bernama) -- Malay language is in danger of becoming a foreign language among the Singapore Malays within the next 10 to 15 years if they continue to ignore its usage, an observer here said.
Sairi H. A. Manan, in a commentary published in Berita Harian, the sole Malay language newspaper in Singapore, said the Malays in the republic should not neglect their mother tongue.
Many among Malay senior civil servants could no longer speak the language as fluently as their predecessors, wrote Sairi.
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