Youth. Oath. Anonymous.
For centuries Malay had served as the lingua franca for persons of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds in the archipelago as well as for,
As well as for those from foreign lands. By the late nineteenth century the dutch regarded everyday malay a low from of the language and termed it “low malay” or “bazaar malay ” as opposed to the “high” malay used at the courts
and fot written literature.