ABSTRACT
Old Malay (OM) is the conventional designation for the language of the earliest Malay epigraphy (seventh to tenth centuries AD). The language of Malay inscriptions of the subsequent period, though also preceding Classical Malay (CM), the language of Malay classical literature, is usually not considered OM (see e.g. Kridalaksana 1991:168). In this chapter, comparisons will be made with corresponding items in CM, in modern Indonesian Malay (IM), or in both of these (C/IM).
