Editing Pluricentric language (section)

=== Malay ===
{{Main|Malay language|Comparison of Standard Malay and Indonesian|Malay trade and creole languages}}
The [[Malay language]] has many local dialects and creolized versions, but it has two main normative varieties which are [[Malaysian language|Malaysian]] and [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]]: Indonesian is codified by [[Indonesia]] as its own ''lingua franca'' based on the dialect spoken in [[Riau Islands]], whereas [[Malaysia]] codifies Malaysian based on the vernacular dialect of [[Johor]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Malay as a pluricentric language|pages=413–417|year=1992|author=Asmah Haji Omar|author-link=Asmah Haji Omar|postscript=, in [[#CITEREFClyne1992|Clyne 1992]].}}</ref> Thus, both lects have the same dialectal basis, and linguistic sources still tend to treat the standards as different forms of a single language.<ref>An example of equal treatment of Malaysian and Indonesian: the ''Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu'' database from the [[Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka]] has a "Istilah [[Majlis Bahasa Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia|MABBIM]]" section dedicated to documenting Malaysian, Indonesian and Bruneian official terminologies: [http://prpm.dbp.gov.my/Cari1?keyword=language&d=286464&#LIHATSINI see example]</ref> In popular parlance, however, the two varieties are often thought of{{who|date=September 2023}} as distinct tongues in their own rights due to the growing divergence between them and for political reasons.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} Nevertheless, they retain a high degree of [[mutual intelligibility]] despite a number of differences in vocabulary (including many [[false friend]]s) and grammar.