The Malay Language

• Malay is an Austronesian language spoken by about 40 million people, mainly in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei.
• It has many dialects, with the standard form being Bahasa Malaysia in Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia in Indonesia.
• Malay is the official language of several Southeast Asian countries and is written in both Latin and Arabic scripts.

About Woronora

Woronora is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woronora is located 27 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire. Woronora Heights is a separate suburb, to the south-west. 'Woronora' is an Aboriginal placename. Records show the spelling of the name has varied since it first appeared in the 19th century, the earliest being Wooloonora (Dixon, 1827, quoted in Walker 1974:66), followed by Wolonora (Dixon, 1837), and Woronora (Mitchell, 1835). The name was first applied to the Woronora River, a tributary of the Georges River, before being given to a hundred, an electoral district, a local road east of the river, and finally the suburb itself. The following meanings have been suggested for Woronora:

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