📚 Bahasa Melayu

The trade language that became three national languages: its grammars, dictionaries and literary history.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject malay language in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Colloquial Malay	Zaharah Othman	1995	17
	Kamus Dwibahasa Oxford Fajar - Inggeris-Melayu & Melayu - Inggeris	Joyce M. Hawkins	1996	8
	An unabridged Malay-English dictionary	Winstedt, Richard Olof Sir	1955	7
	Complete Malay	Christopher Byrnes	2006	6
	Malay-English vocabulary; containing over 7000 Malay words or phrases with their English equivalents together with an appendix of household, nautical and medical terms	W. G. Shellabear	1912	5
	Long-chair Malay	O. T. Dussek	1900	4
	A manual of the Malay language	Maxwell, William Edward Sir	1907	4
	Teach yourself Malay	Martha Blanche Lewis	1947	4
	Speak Malay	Edward S. King	1960	4
	Biological foundations of language	Eric H. Lenneberg	1967	4
	Nahu Melayu mutakhir	Asmah Haji Omar	1980	4
	Tuhfat al-nafis	Ali al-Haji Riau Raja	1991	4
	Kamus Jauhari	Muhammad Hj. Abd. Latif	2000	4
	A dictionary of Malayan medicine	John D. Gimlette	1939	3
	The morphology of Malay	Abdullah Hassan.	1970	3
	Susur Galur Bahasa Melayu	Asmah Haji Omar	1985	3
	Kamus Dewan	Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.	2005	3
	Complete Malay	Christopher Byrnes	2010	3
	Malay grammar	Winstedt, Richard Olof Sir	1913	2
	Kamus Dewan	Iskandar Teuku.	1970	2
	Kamus lengkap	Awang Sudjai Hairul.	1977	2
	Linguistik am untuk guru bahasa Malaysia	Abdullah Hassan.	1980	2
	Tatabahasa Dewan	Safiah Karim Nik	1986	2
	Dialek Melayu Sarawak	James T. Collins	1987	2
	Kamus Komputer	Ahmad Zaki Abu Bakar.	1995	2
	Bahasa	Zulkifley Hamid.	1996	2
	The Indonesian language	James N. Sneddon	2003	2
	Pengenalan fonetik dan fonologi	Paitoon M. Chaiyanara.	2006	2
	Pragmatik linguistik	Siti Hajar Abdul Aziz	2010	2
	Teori Sistemik-Fungsional Dalam Stilistik	Mohammad Fadzeli Jaafar	2013	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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