- Malaysian Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 马来西亚华语; traditional Chinese: 馬來西亞華語; pinyin: Mǎláixīyà Huáyǔ) is a variety of Mandarin Chinese (官話) spoken in Malaysia by ethnic Chinese in Malaysia. Malaysian Chinese tend to think that the Mandarin Chinese they speak is a variation of Standard Mandarin (Putonghua), however, since the difference can be as similar as British English and Malaysian English, it is a Mandarin dialect of its own right. Its closest cousin is not Standard Mandarin, instead, its closest cousin is Singaporean Mandarin, the language was widely used in films like Tiger Woohoo 大日子(2010), Namewee's Nasi Lemak 2.0 辣死你妈 and movies created by Singaporean movie director Jack Neo.
Malaysian Mandarin speakers seldom translate local terms or names to Mandarin when they speak. They would prefer to say Malay place name in its original Malay pronunciation, for instance, even though the street name "Jalan Bukit Kepong" is written as 惹兰武吉甲洞 (rělán wǔjí jiǎdòng) in local Chinese printed media, the local Chinese almost never use "rělán wǔjí jiǎdòng" in daily conversations. There are exceptions of course, for example Taiping, since this name is derived from Chinese language, when people mention this place when they speaking local Mandarin, they always use its Mandarin pronunciation, tàipíng, instead of using its Malay pronunciation, which sounds more like taipeng. Another examples is when a place's Chinese translation varied vastly with its original local name, for example: Teluk Intan (ānsùn) and Kota Kinabalu (yàbì), they always use ānsùn and yàbì in these case.
In comparison with Chinese, Taiwanese or even Singaporean Mandarin, Malaysian Mandarin is clearly distinguished by its relatively tonally 'flat' sound as well as its extensive use of glottal stops and 'rusheng'. This results in a distinct 'clipped' sound compared to other forms of Mandarin.
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