Engmalchin

'A Malayan language will arise out of the contributions these communities will make to the linguistic meltingpot. The emerging language will then have to wait for a literary genius who will give it a voice and a soul, a service which Dante performed for the Italian language.'
But the supposedly disparate tongues whose agglutination Dante sparked to form the Italian vernacular were rather closely related in the first place -- no more, really, than dissimilar dialects. To hope for something similar with such a diverse group of languages, with different roots, different histories, different syntaxes, even different writing systems, is rather a stretch. Maybe, just maybe, it will happen one day. But not, I dare say, anytime in the foreseeable future.