Malay is the national language of Malaysia and an official language of Brunei and Singapore. Many of the people who need Malay documents in English are Malaysians going abroad to study or work, whose applications call for their SPM certificate and birth certificate (sijil kelahiran). Anyone buying, selling or inheriting land in Malaysia first has to understand the lot number and area on the land title (geran). Foreigners working in Malaysia receive a Borang EA income statement from their employer every year, and the tenancy agreement (perjanjian sewa) for their home is in Malay too, with stamp duty to pay on it to the tax authority. Once the Malay on the page is replaced with English, the agency letterhead, lot numbers and amounts are still in their original positions, so the two can be checked against each other line by line.
Malay and Indonesian are two standards of the same language, with differences in spelling and vocabulary. Months are one example: Malay writes Mac, Ogos and Disember, Indonesian Maret, Agustus and Desember. Some words mean something else entirely: percuma is “free of charge” in Malay but “in vain” in Indonesian. Indonesian is a separate option in Reglyph, so upload documents from Indonesia as Indonesian, and Malay documents from Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore as Malay. Malay today is usually written in Rumi, the Latin alphabet; there is also an Arabic-based script called Jawi. Only Rumi is supported for now, so pages written in Jawi cannot be translated yet.
These are the Malay-language documents people most often translate to English — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
Drop in a scanned Malay PDF (one from your phone's scanner app works) or a digital PDF. Image-only PDFs are fine — no text layer needed.
OCR extracts the Malay text, then it's translated to English while the original text is erased from the page.
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Use it first to understand and check them. The English version follows the original layout, with subjects, grades, dates and the certificate number in their original positions. For the translation you actually submit, schools, employers and immigration departments usually require a certified translation, so follow their rules. Once you have the certified translation, you can use our version to check the dates and numbers item by item. Names are where things most often go wrong: go by the passport spelling and check every one.
A MyKad number has 12 digits in the format YYMMDD-PB-###G: the first six are the date of birth, and the seventh and eighth are a place-of-birth code, with 01 to 59 standing for the states of Malaysia and 60 and above for births abroad. That string alone reveals a person's birthday and place of birth. The English version keeps it on the page exactly as printed, so before passing it on to anyone, consider whether they actually need that number. If you only want to understand the content yourself, you can cover the number with paper before scanning.
Malaysian official letters follow a fixed format. The first line at the top right is Ruj. Kami (our reference), followed by the date, and a reply also carries Ruj. Tuan (your reference). The first paragraph of the body is unnumbered, numbering runs 2, 3, 4 from the second paragraph, and the last paragraph is unnumbered again. Above the signature is the set closing Saya yang menjalankan amanah, and below it is the s.k. (copied to) list. The English version keeps all of these in place, with reference numbers and paragraph numbers unchanged. If the letter gives a deadline for replying, confirm the date against the original.
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