Zainal Abidin Ahmad, Malaysian author and scholar (died 1973)

Zainal Abidin Ahmad (writer)

Malaysian writer and linguist

Tan Sri Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad or better known by the moniker Za'aba, was a Malaysian writer and linguist. He modernised the Malay language with the publication of a series of grammar books entitled Pelita Bahasa in 1936 at the Sultan Idris Training College. The book contained…