Question: The government took takes to define the literature of different languages, in what year?
About the article "Malaysia", section "Fine arts".

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The strong oral tradition that has existed since before the arrival of writing to what is now Malaysia continues today.
These early works were heavily influenced by Indian epics.
Oral literature such as folktales flourished even after printed works appeared.
The Arabic Jawi script arrived with the coming of Islam to the peninsula in the late 15th century.
At this point, stories which previously had given lessons in Hinduism and Buddhism were taken to have more universal meanings, with their main story lines remaining intact.
Each of the Malay Sultanates created their own literary tradition influenced by preexisting oral stories and by the stories that came with Islam.
The arrival of the printing press in Malaysia was key in allowing literature to be accessed by more than those rich enough to afford handwritten manuscripts.
There was a division between the royal Malays, who knew English, and the lower classes, who only read Malay.
In the early years of the 20th century, literature began to change to reflect the changing norms of Malaysians.
In 1971 the government took the step of defining the literature of different languages.
Literature written in Malay was called "The National Literature of Malaysia"; literature in other bumiputra languages was called "regional literature"; literature in other languages was called "sectional literature".
Malay poetry is highly developed, and uses many forms.
A "Hikayat" is a traditional narrative, and stories written in that fashion are named using Hikayat followed by the name(s) of the protagonist(s).
The "pantun" is a form of poetry used in many aspects of Malay culture.
The "Syair" is another form of narrative, once very popular.
The Hikayat form remains popular, and the pantun has spread from Malay to other languages.
Until the 19th century, literature produced in Malaysia focused mainly on tales of royalty, as it was produced just for royalty.
It was after this point that it expanded to other areas.
The race riots of 1969 strongly influenced literature; the improvements of the economy in the 1980s brought about social changes and new forms of literature.
The first Malay literature was in Arabic script.
The earliest known Malay writing is on the Terengganu Inscription Stone, made in 1303.
One of the more famous Malay works is the "Sulalatus al-Salatin", also known as the "Sejarah Melayu" (meaning "The Malay Annals").
It was originally recorded in the 15th century, although it has since been edited; the known version is from the 16th century.
The "Hikaya Rajit Pasai", written in the 15th century, is another significant literary work.
The "Hikayat Hang Tuah", or story of Hang Tuah, tells the story of Hang Tuah and his devotion to his Sultan.
This is the most famous Hikayat; it drew from the "Sejarah Melayu".
Both have been nominated as world heritage items under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 'Memory of the World' programme.
Folktales such as the "Hikayat Sang Kancil", about a clever mouse deer, are popular, as are adventures such as "Ramayana", adapted from Indian epics.
Munshi Abdullah (Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir), who lived from 1797–1854, is regarded as the father of Malay literature.
"Hikayat Abdullah", his autobiography, is about everyday life at the time when British influence was spreading.
Female Malay writers began becoming popular in the 1950s.
Different ethnic and linguistic groups have produced works in their own languages.
Chinese and Indian literature became common as the numbers of speakers increased in Malaysia, and locally produced works based in languages from those areas began to be produced in the 19th century.
Beginning in the 1950s, Chinese literature expanded; homemade literature in Indian languages has failed to emerge.
English has become a common literary language. 
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Tamils have strong attachment to the Tamil language, which is often venerated in literature as ""Tamil̲an̲n̲ai"", "the Tamil mother".
It has historically been, and to large extent still is, central to the Tamil identity.
Like the other languages of South India, it is a Dravidian language, unrelated to the Indo-European languages of northern India.
The language has been far less influenced by Sanskrit than the other Dravidian languages, and preserves many features of Proto-Dravidian, though modern-day spoken Tamil in Tamil Nadu, freely uses loanwords from Sanskrit and English.
Tamil literature is of considerable antiquity, and is recognised as a classical language by the government of India.
Classical Tamil literature, which ranges from lyric poetry to works on poetics and ethical philosophy, is remarkably different from contemporary and later literature in other Indian languages, and represents the oldest body of secular literature in South Asia. 
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