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Senoi is the largest group of Orang Asli, their share is about 54 percent of the total number of Orang Asli. The Senoi ethnic group includes 6 tribes namely, the Cheq Wong people , the Mah Meri people , the Jah Hut people , the Semaq Beri people , the Semai people and the Temiar people .
Orang Bunian: "hidden people" or "whistling people"; a race of exceptional beauty and grace. Orang ketot: humans with short stature, similar to dwarves; Orang kenit: small humans, often possessing magic powers; Gergasi: giants or ogres; Gedembai or Kelembai: an ogre who has the power to turn things to stone.
Orang Ulu ("people of the interior" in Malay) is an ethnic designation politically coined to group together roughly 27 very small but ethnically diverse tribal groups in northeastern Sarawak, Malaysia with populations ranging from less than 300 persons to over 25,000 persons.
Orang Asli was noticed only during the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960), when it turned out that most of them supported the communist insurgents, consisting of mostly ethnic Chinese. The Chinese had close contacts with the aborigines, in particular, among the Temuan people as there were many people of mixed Sino-Temuan blood. [ 5 ]
Orang Asal is an overarching term, encompassing all indigenous people on both Peninsula and East Malaysia. [ 1 ] Those on the Peninsula are known more specifically as the Orang Asli ; they number around 149,500 [ 1 ] and make up only 0.7% of the total Malaysian population.
Melanau (Malay: Orang Melanau, Melanau: Tenawan Melanau) or A-Likou (meaning River people in Mukah dialect) is an ethnic group indigenous to Sarawak, Malaysia. They are among the earliest settlers [3] of Sarawak. They speak the Melanau language, which is a part of the North Bornean branch of Malayo-Polynesian languages.
The name "Orang Sungei" is a collective term that was first coined during the colonial British rule for communities living along the Kinabatangan River. [2] In some cases like the Tambanuo people would refer to themselves as Orang Sungei for those who are Muslims; unless if they are not Muslims, then they would identify themselves by their ...
Following the successful establishment of the Ampang tin mines by Muhamad Shah, Sultan Abdul Samad used the tin ore to trade with the Straits Settlements.The mines in turn attracted even more Chinese miners [9] with the help of Raja Abdullah bin Raja Jaafar, one of his sons-in-law and Yap Ah Loy, a Chinese Kapitan.