Hi Jesse I just want to give some response to your question about language. Well, the differences between Malay and Indonesian are: accent and dialect/diction. The similarities are on the origin of both languages and the sentence structure. Back to the history of Indonesian language long time ago, it was derived from Melayu which was also used by Malay. Why did linguists choose this language as Unity Language of Indonesia? because most Indonesian are from Melayu race. Addition, in my place,,, our accent is a bit similar with Malay accent Hope this won't make you confused. Sorry for the grammar mistakes, I'm learning English

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As I know, Both languages have a little different, but with same word doesnt mean it has same meaning for both languages. The pronounciation or dialect is different too. Because in history Malaysia colonialized by England, so Malaysia more influenced by british. But, Indonesia had colonialized by some countries, so their own language influenced to Indonesian. Besides that, in history Indonesia had a lot of kingdom too with different local languages, make a lot of ethnic in Indonesia, and unwittingly ethnics have an influence for Indonesian too. However, 75% both speakers can understand their conversation each other

hm..i wanna try for answer your question in historical of both . in ancient history , the origin of indonesian language is malay. Because according to wikepedia malay language consisted 45 parts in south asian nations with different accent and dialects. in history , indonesia dominated with dutch ( holland) language that colonialized in past time. and that's influenced for accent in indonesia . and malaysia more infulenced and colonialized by england , so british ( UK) dominated for accent and dialect in malay. malay and indonesia is one clump language, is not difficult to understanding each other, but you must try to know it with little different dialect and grammar ..

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