In addition to its classical and literary form Malay has various regional dialects established before the rise of the Malaccan Sultanate. But beyond these Malay spread through interethnic contact and trade across the Malay archipelago as far as the Philippines. This contact resulted in a lingua franca that was called Bazaar Malay or low Malay.
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