By Malay you mean Malay and Indonesian?
Languages ranked in order of their economic usefulness: (# of speakers - # of speakers who also speak a language ranked above this language) * (GDP generated per capita) 1. English 2. Chinese 3. Russian 4. Arabic 5. Japanese 6. Spanish 7. Portuguese 8. Korean 9. Malay
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Right. Same language. Were it not for indonesia, Malay would not be on this list.
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Right. I could argue that some computer languages are more different than Spanish and Portuguese. Declarative and imperative languages require entirely different styles of thinking. Probably would need to look at the number of "speakers" to see if it warrants a distinction.
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oh and the associated GDP
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