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- Malay was first used in the first millennia known as Old Malay, a part of the Austronesian language family.
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Orang Asli (lit. "native people", "original people", or "aboriginal people" in Malay) are a heterogeneous indigenous population forming a national minority in Malaysia. They are the oldest inhabitants of Peninsular Malaysia .
The indigenous languages of Malaysia belong to the Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian families. The national, or official, language is Malay which is the mother tongue of the majority Malay ethnic group.
Members of the Aboriginal-Malay tribes speak dialects that belong to the Austronesian family of languages (as does the Malay dialect), with the exceptions of the Semelai and Temoq dialects. Some Aboriginal-Malays speak nothing other than standard Malay.
The indigenous languages of Malaysia belong to the Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian families. The national, or official, language is Malay which is the mother tongue of the majority Malay ethnic group.
The Temoq, Senoi and Negrito speak related languages known as Aslian, which belong to the Mon-Khmer family, while the ancestors of the Proto-Malay spoke languages that, like Malay, belonged to the Austronesian family of languages. The Proto-Malay group are similar in appearance to Malays, but of diverse origin.
Para-Malay includes the Malayan languages of Sumatra. They are: Minangkabau, Central Malay (Bengkulu), Pekal, Talang Mamak, Musi (Palembang), Negeri Sembilan (Malaysia), and Duano’. Aboriginal Malay are the Malayan languages spoken by the Orang Asli (Proto-Malay) in Malaya. They are Jakun, Orang Kanaq, Orang Seletar, and Temuan.
The term “Orang Asli”, which means “original people” in Malay, was adopted by the Malaysian government in the 1960s to replace the English term “Aborigines” and the Malay term “Sakai”, which have derogatory connotations. The Orang Asli consist of at least 19 culturally and linguistically distinct subgroups.
