Funny, people living in the Malay archipelage not interested in
learnig Malay.
I see people living near Hispanic community speaking Spanish,
like the American in Southern California and near the Mexican
border in Texas.
Here people in the early colonial days learn to speak Malay by
interacting in the community. Illeterate labourers and
housewifes, Chinese and Indians could speak Malay.
Now except among the Malays, it seems Malay is getting extinct
in Singapore.
Dispite the multiracial hype, Singapore is
chauvinistic.