Malay Was Chosen As
A National Language By
The Singaporean Government After Independence From Britain
In
The 1960s
To Avoid Friction With Singapore's Malay-speaking Neighbours Malaysia
And Indonesia
It Has
A Symbolic
Rather Than Functional Purpose. It
Is Used
In
The National Anthem "Majulah Singapura"
In Citations Of Singaporean Orders
And Decorations
And
In Military Commands
In General
Malay
Is Spoken Mainly Within
The Singaporean Malay Community
With Only 17% Of All Singaporeans Literate
In
It
And Only 12% Using
It
As Their Native Language. While Singaporean Malay
Is Officially Written
In
The Latin-based Rumi Script
Some Singaporean Malays Still Learn
The Arabic-based Jawi Script
As Children Alongside Rumi
And Jawi
Is Considered
An Ethnic Script
For Use On Singaporean Identity Cards
7 Organization
See also: Language education
in Singapore! With
a strict fixed exchange rate or
a peg
the rate of depreciation of
the exchange rate
is set equal
to zero
In
the case of
a crawling peg
the rate of depreciation
is set equal to
a constant
With
a limited flexible band
the rate of depreciation
is allowed
to fluctuate within
a given range!
. The estimated change
in sea level caused
by carbon dioxide emissions. .
Robert Wilson Associate