# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zainal-abidin-ahmad
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:15:38.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zainal-abidin-ahmad"
name: "Zainal Abidin Ahmad"
slug: "zainal-abidin-ahmad"
description: "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 guidelines in modernising the structure of classical Malay, transforming it into the language that is in use today: the most significant change was the switch from the conventional passive to the modern active form of syntax."
tagline: "Malaysian writer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1895-09-16"
deathDate: "1973-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.48
  momentum:             0.6617647058823531
  historical:           9.422104000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ms.wikiquote.org/wiki/Za%E2%80%99ba"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainal_Abidin_Bin_Ahmad"
    title: "Zainal Abidin Bin Ahmad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainal_Abidin_Ahmad_(writer)"
    title: "Zainal Abidin Ahmad (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainal_'Abdin_bin_Ahmad"
    title: "Zainal 'Abdin bin Ahmad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainal_Abidin_Ahmad_(marubuci)"
    title: "Zainal Abidin Ahmad (marubuci)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainal_Abidin_bin_Ahmad"
    title: "Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainal_Abidin_bin_Ahmad"
    title: "Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainal_Abidin_bin_Ahmad"
    title: "Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainal_Abidin_Ahmad"
    title: "Zainal Abidin Ahmad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB_%D0%90%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4"
    title: "Зайнал Абидин бин Ахмад"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%89%8E%E5%B7%B4"
    title: "扎巴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8064849"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump