- Classifying languages
- Language stocks and families
- Language diffusion
- Contact languages
- Creoles
- Language usage
- Language diversity
- History of Malay
- Characteristics of Malay
- Regional varieties of Malay
- Social varieties of Malay
- Languages of Sarawak
- Malayic languages of Sarawak
- Bidayuh, Melanau and Kajang sub-families
- Northern Sarawak languages
- Languages of Sabah
- Dusunic languages of Sabah
- Sama-Bajau, Murutic and Malayic languages of Sabah
- Paitanic and other Austronesian languages of Sabah
- Aslian languages
- Aslian: characteristics and usage
- Origins of Chinese dialects
- Distribution of Chinese dialects
- Use of Chinese
- Indian languages
- Tamil
- English
- Literary heritage
- Malay oral traditions
- Orang Asli oral traditions
- Oral traditions of Sarawak
- Oral traditions of Sabah
- Malay myths and legends
- Traditional Malay poetic forms
- Rarer forms of traditional Malay poetry
- The Malay written tradition
- The art of the Malay letter
- Malay legal digests
- The Hikayat
- Hikayat Hang Tuah
- Sejarah Melayu
- The Mahabharata
- The Ramayana
- Panji romances
- Religious literature