 The official and state language of Pahang is Malaysian, a standardised form of the Malay language.The terminology as per federal government policy is "Bahasa Malaysia" (literally "Malaysian language") but in the federal constitution continues to refer to the official language as "Bahasa Melayu" (literally "Malay language").The National Language Act 1967 specifies the Latin (Rumi) script as the official script of the national language, but allow the use of the traditional Jawi script.