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Malays (/ m ə ˈ l eɪ / mə-LAY; Malay: Orang Melayu, Jawi: اورڠ ملايو ) are an Austronesian ethnoreligious group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands that lie between these locations.
Malaysian Malays (Malay: Orang Melayu Malaysia, Jawi: ملايو مليسيا ) are Malaysians of Malay ethnicity whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in the Malay world. According to the 2023 population estimate, with a total population of 17.6 million, Malaysian Malays form 57.9% of Malaysia's demographics, the largest ethnic group ...
The name Malaysia is a combination of the word Malays and the Latin-Greek suffix -ia/-ία [19] which can be translated as 'land of the Malays'. [20] Similar-sounding variants have also appeared in accounts older than the 11th century, as toponyms for areas in Sumatra or referring to a larger region around the Strait of Malacca. [21]
Malays may refer to: Malays (ethnic group), an ethnic group on the Malay Peninsula and throughout Southeast Asia Bruneian Malays, Malays in Brunei;
Malaysia contains speakers of 137 living languages, [14] 41 of which are found in Peninsula Malaysia. [15] Malaysian, or Standard Malay, is the official language, while English is considered the de facto language for business.
A Delinese Malay woman in the traditional wedding costume from North Sumatera, Indonesia. The Malay people in Indonesia fall into various sub-ethnicities with each having its own distinct linguistic variety, history, clothing, traditions, and a sense of common identity. According to Ananta et al. 2015, [30] Malay Indonesians include:
The Malay realm is described in green and other related sub-ethnicities are rendered in darker or lighter green. Malay ethnic groups are depicted as inhabiting the eastern coast of Sumatra and coastal Kalimantan. In Indonesia, the term "Malay" (Indonesian: Melayu) is more associated with ethnic Malay than 'Malay race'. Historically the term ...
Malay (disambiguation) Malabar (disambiguation), a region of India also known as Malaya and Malai; Malayalam, a Dravidian language of Kerala, India; Malayala Manorama, a Malayalam-language newspaper based in Kerala, India; Malayala Rajyam, an Indian Malayalam-language newspaper; Malays (disambiguation) Malays (ethnic group)