Malay is declared twice, once tagged and once bare
Two of the nine vendors that declare a site language declare Malay. One writes ms-MY and names the country; the other writes the bare code. Indonesian, which is closely related, is declared by twice as many. As of 2026-09-22.
| Vendor | Code as declared | Form of the code | The set it sits in |
|---|---|---|---|
| CapCut | ms-MY | Region-tagged | 27 locales, every one but English region-tagged |
| Kling AI | ms | Bare language code | 20 bare codes |
Inclusion rule. Vendors declaring this language as a same-host hreflang alternate. A vendor serving the language without declaring it cannot be seen by this method and is not listed. Order. Alphabetical by vendor.
1A tag that matters more than usual here
Malay is a national language in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore, and the Indonesian standard is close enough to it that speakers of one can read the other with effort. A tag naming Malaysia therefore rules something in and out.
The bare declaration does not. It could mean the Malaysian standard, and in practice almost certainly does, but the register records what is written rather than what is likely, and this is one of the few languages where the difference has a real shape.
2Two declarations against four next door
Indonesian appears in four declared sets and this language in two. The same two vendors declare both, so nobody here has chosen this market without also taking the larger one beside it.
That ordering is commercially obvious and worth recording anyway: it means a buyer in Kuala Lumpur is choosing from a shorter list than a buyer in Jakarta, on a column that measures nothing more than which pages exist.
3The thinnest documented market in the region
Neither of these two vendors publishes a spoken-language list, so nothing in this register says whether a finished video could speak Malay. Filipino is in the same position with the same two vendors.
Southeast Asia as a whole is covered in this column and uncovered in both output columns, and these two languages are where that is starkest. Two site pages is the entire published record for either market.
4Sources
Each row was read from the vendor's own markup on 2026-09-22 and is kept in the register; what counts as a declaration is on how counted. Its neighbour is read at the Indonesian page.
Languages either side of this one in the index: Korean and Polish. Every language any vendor declares is listed at one language at a time.
- Site languages20 languages: ar, de, en, es, fil, fr, hi, id, it, ja, ko, ms, nl, pl, pt, ru, th, tr, uk, videclared as same-domain alternates
- Site languagesEvery alternate but English is a language-region pair; Russian is declared only as ru-BY and Chinese only as zh-TWhow the codes are written