Word: malay
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Major South East and South Asia Languages not taught at Harvard (in millions): Assamese/India (7), Bengali/India and Pakistan (86), Burmese (16), Cebuano/Phillippines (7), Gujarati/India (22), Hindi/India (165), Javanese/Indonesia (42), Kannada/India (20), Malay (72), Malayalam/India (17), Marathi/India (34), Nepali/Nepal, India (9), Oriya/India (9), Punjabi/India, Pakistan (26), Pushtu/Afghanistan (12), Rajasthani/India (17), Siamese (21), Sinhalese/Ceylon (8), Sudanese/Indonesia (13), Tagalog/Philippines (12), Tamil/India, Ceylon (37), Telegu/India (41), Urdu/Pakistan, India (55), and Vietnamese (26), Total...
Their task was complicated by the fact that among New Guinea's 2,000,000 people, nearly 750 different languages are spoken. The lingua franca is pidgin - an amalgam of missionary English, Malay, and local dialects...
...Center now abuilding on the barren west coast of Australia, 2) a nuclear-free zone in the Southern Hemisphere and 3) recognition of Red China. That, countered Menzies, "would give Peking a smashing victory." Calwell also asked for a treaty with Malaysia, enabling Australian troops to remain in the Malay peninsula. Such a treaty is impossible, Menzies replied, because Malaysia, already accused of "neocolonialism" by Indonesia's Sukarno, must appear neutral...
Sukarno could, of course, enlist Chinese military support, and this is the greatest danger in the situation. But Chinese support would come with many strings attached. Sukarno wants to see the whole Malay Archipelago his domain. He hardly wants to become a puppet in his own land...
...life comparable to that of Western Europe. Formosa, with significant U.S. aid, has had successive fine harvests in contrast to mainland China, and boasts a battle-ready army of 400,000 men. The Philippines has a stable working democracy these days, and is forging close links with its fellow Malay nations. Malaysia, a state scheduled to be born this month, will federate Malaya, North Borneo, Singapore and Sarawak in an anti-Communist grouping. Indonesia is no more unstable than before. India, brought face-to-face with reality by Red China's 1962 assault, is rebuilding its army with...