Malaysia language row - 24 March 2009

In Malaysia the issue of what language is used for teaching in schools has become a key issue for many political groups.

The country's ruling party, has said more subjects should be taught in Malay, the national language, but others argue that English should be used.

Al Jazeera's David Hawkins has more.

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[suasanasunyi]

@JeromeLeong

you still don't get it. malay is the MAJOR LANGUAGE and also LINGUA FRANCA IN MALAY ARCHEOPILAGO for centuries, not english, noT chinese. nobody cares about the fact that chinese language have the biggest total worldwide speakers.

[Fortminded]

hey guys....

even though English Language is very important..

But I begging you to not put behind our National Languange,Bahasa Malaysia!

[SinjoroEng]

The common language of the world should be Esperanto but not English as the suggestion by UNESCO

[singsingsingsings]

@suasanasunyi Correction : Obviously u will agree cos it benefits u.. If ur textbook is spanish u will make alot of noise right? C'mon be steady know what is going on...

[ddee181]

pergh pekat slang kelate :O

[anneLORELA]

omg , i remember back on this time . its so frustrating to learn in sciense and maths because of the language ! especially with our kind ofr teacher . the malay pallet is so strong . sometimes i just dont get what she say . lol for example , like the old man on @1:35 . buh more worse ! *sight* if we only using our malay language that time . myb ill pass in PMR n SPM even its DWI bhasa buh i just dont undrstand when our techer teach us on class . lol :p n sorry for my bad english :p

[martindarma]

@RedPlumJam saya senang sekali bisa bicara dengan bahasa yang sama dengan jiran saya di Sabah, di Semnanjung Malaysia, Timor Leste, Patani dan tempat tempat lain di Asia Tenggara, besar harapan saya bahasa kita dapat dipakai di Asia Tenggara sehingga dapat mempererat persaudaraan. Ingat bersatu kita teguh bercerai kita runtuh.

[CyberSetan]

Sudah-sudahlah dengan pertikaian BAHASA KEBANGSAAN ni. Guna sudahlah.

BAHASA MALAYSIA (MELAYU to be precise), is our NATIONAL LANGUAGE - Period.It is used officially in Malaysia.

We the multiracial SABAHANS and SARAWAKIANS have tolerated the use of this National Language so that we can properly communicate amongst us - even though BAHASA MALAYSIA IS NOT OUR NATIVE LANGUAGE.

[CyberSetan]

@mynamefifi Kalau macam itulah jadinya, kami di Sabah dan Sarawak pun mahu bahasa ibunda kami dijadikan BAHASA KEBANGSAAN dan MESTI DIGUNAKAN OLEH SEMUA ORANG.

Let me remind you that we in Sabah and Sarawak are racially FAR MORE diverse than the people in the peninsular Malaysia.

If each of our race (Kadazan, Bajau, Iban, Melanau etc) wants to have our own language included as the NATIONAL LANGUAGE, then there will chaos as each of us will not want to use or learn "OTHER RACES'" language.

[RedPlumJam]

@RedPlumJam

pembetulan

*tak setuju*

[RedPlumJam]

@mynamefifi

saya setuju dengan pendapat kamu. bahasa kebangsaan ialah bahasa yang digunakan untuk menyatukan rakyat yang terdiri daripada pelbagai bahasa. kalau ada bahasa kebangsaan lebih daripada satu, konsep bahasa kebangsaan, bahasa yang dapat menyatukan rakyat tak lagi bermakna. cuba bayangkan, kalau ada lebih daripada satu, bahasa apa yang digunakan semasa persidangan parlimen?