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  2. Riau Malays - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the Malay language of the Malacca era was known as Malacca Malay, Johor era is known as Johor Malay and Riau era is known as Riau Malay. Riau Malay language has been nurtured in such a way by Raja Ali Haji, so that this language already has standards in its day and has also been widely published, in the form of literary books ...

  3. Malay Indonesians - Wikipedia

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    The Indonesian language, which is the country's official language and lingua franca, was based on Riau Malay, which despite its common name is not based on the vernacular Malay dialects of the Riau Islands, rather it represents a form of Classical Malay as used in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the Riau-Lingga Sultanate.

  4. Orang Laut - Wikipedia

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    The Orang Laut are several seafaring ethnic groups and tribes living around Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian Riau Islands. The Orang Laut are commonly identified as the Orang Seletar from the Straits of Johor , but the term may also refer to any Malayic -speaking people living on coastal islands, including those of the Mergui ...

  5. Riau Islands - Wikipedia

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    There are fifteen different varieties of Malay spoken in the Riau Islands, most of which are mutually intelligible with Indonesian, which is a standardized form of Malay. [189] [190] The Riau Islands are considered the birthplace of the modern Malay language, though it was the classical Malaccan Malay of the Johor court rather than Riau Malay ...

  6. Malays (ethnic group) - Wikipedia

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    All three Malay nationalist factions believed in the idea of a Bangsa Melayu ('Malay Nation') and the position of Malay language, but disagreed over the role of Islam and Malay rulers. The conservatives supported Malay language , Islam and Malay monarchy as constituting the key pillars of Malayness, but within a secular state that restricted ...

  7. Riau - Wikipedia

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    Up to now in Riau Malay customs and culture, always cooperating with kris in every dress as a complementary weapon from generation to generation. However, what is different in the form of kris from adat in Java is, if the use of kris in Java is tucked in the back of the waist, in Riau and the Malay people, in general, the use of kris is in front.

  8. Sakai people (Indonesia) - Wikipedia

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    Malay people, Minangkabau people, Talang Mamak people, Akit people, Orang Asli Sakai is a tribal community in Indonesia, traditionally living in the interior of Riau , Sumatra . [ 1 ] Some of them still lead a nomadic and hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the remote interior of Sumatra, while most settled into major cities and towns in Sumatra with ...

  9. Malaysian Malays - Wikipedia

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    However, there is no connection between Melakan Malay as used on Riau and the Riau vernacular. [40] Variants of Malay in Malaysia differed by states, districts or even villages. The Melaka-Johor dialect, owing to its prominence in the past, became the standard speech among Malays in Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore.