Bahasa Malaysia is the official language of Malaysia. Previously it was known as Bahasa Melayu. The government changed it to Bahasa Malaysia because they want to make it as friendly to other race in Malaysia since it is the official language. Bahasa Malaysia is widely spoken by the citizenships there. Most of them can understand and listen to it. Most of the government document, school textbooks are written in Bahasa Malaysia. The cabinet meeting is also conducted in Bahasa Malaysia.
Apart from the Bahasa Malaysia, mandarin is one the languages spoken by the Chinese group. Now due to the emerging of China, it is getting more and more people start to learn mandarin and hope in the future can explore China. The Indians and Malays all started to learn mandarin and sometime they even speak better than Chinese group. Among the Chinese community, dialects are used in the daily communication too. Some of the dialects include Hokkien, Foochow, Hakka, Cantonese, Teochew, and Hainan. However, nowadays the younger generations do not know all these dialects because in their daily life, the communication language used is either mandarin, English or Malays.
Tamil is the language used by the Indian people. Tamil in Malaysia is not so widely used in Malaysia. Usually it is used by Indians for their daily communication.
