Singapore Languages

Task List

Description
The national language of Singapore is Malay. Other commonly used languages are: English, Chinese and Tamil.

Word List(s)

 * Chinese Genealogical Word List
 * 1,000 Most Common Malay Words
 * 1,000 Most Common Tamil Words

Alphabet and Pronunciation
Malay

Tamil

Language Aids and Dictionaries
Malay
 * Lexilogos Malay Dictionary
 * Oxford Living Dictionaries Malay Dictionary
 * Malay 101 Online Dictionary
 * Lingo.com- Learn Malay
 * iLanguages.org- Learn Malay
 * Learn 101- Learn Malay
 * 101 Languages- Malay 101

Chinese
 * Word Dictionary- Chinese
 * Chinese Dictionary.org
 * Chinese English Pinyin Dictionary
 * Written Chinese.com
 * Cambridge Dictionary- English-Chinese
 * Line Dict- Chinese-English
 * Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
 * Collins Chinese-English Dictionary
 * Yellow Bridge- Mandarin-English Dictionary and Thesaurus

Tamil
 * Lexilogos- Tamil Dictionary
 * Tamildict.com
 * Oxford Living Dictionaries
 * Tamil Typing
 * Shabdkosh- English Tamil Dictionary and Translation
 * University of Madras- Tamil Lexicon
 * ilanguages.org- Tamil
 * ilearn Tamil
 * Learn 101- Tamil
 * Web Assisted Learning and Teaching of Tamil

Additional Resources
Malay Chinese Tamil
 * Malay, Oakland: Lonely Planet, 2008.
 * Malay : Year 1, first quarter. Home Study Institute (Oriental Branch), 1939
 * Lewis, MB, Malay, London : English Universities Press, 1974
 * Swettenham, Frank A, Vocabulary of the English and Malay Languages : with notes. Forgotten Books, 2016.
 * Moore, Oliver J, Chinese, Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000
 * Educational Services (Washington, D.C), Chinese, Washington, D.C. : Educational Services Corp., 1993
 * Shulman, David, Tamil, Cambridge Harvard University Press 2016
 * University of Madras, Tamil lexicon, Madras : University of Madras, 1982
 * Kumaraswami Raja, N and Doraswamy, K, Conversational Tamil, Annamalaingar, South India : Annamalainagar, South India : Anamalai University, 1981