The evolution of the Malay language however, can be dated back to prehistoric times when Malay had a dozen words for fall, hit, carry, and so on. They were words of such precision that different terms were used.
This precision of speech was further helped by a flexible syntax enabling the emphatic word or phrase to be placed in its just position of prominence in the same sentence.
But until it had borrowed from Sanskrit words like price, property, work, religion, fasting, time, glad, agony, the language was destitute of terms to express feelings and ethical, religious and other abstract ideas.
The style of the standard Malay Language mainly consists of idioms, or in Malay, peribahasa and simpulan bahasa, and also poems or in Malay, pantun, syair, sajak and puisi.
Although the style of the Malay language is mainly being practised as from the early days, it is slowly evolving into a more versatile and more complex language to keep up with the changing times.