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	Learn more about List of ethnic groups in the online encyclopedia.
		Malay- dominant ethnic group in south-east Asia specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.
		Sherpa - group in Nepal and the Himalayas
		Palestinian - much-disputed ethnic group of the Middle East
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_ethnic_groups.html (1085 words)

	Adherents.com
		The Ji group Dejiao had nine organizations as of 1982 [in Malay].
		Estimates of % of population in ethnic (NOT religious) backgrounds, and est.
		It acquired the status of a Shinto sect during the Meiji period but is not counted among the thirteen 'Sect Shinto' groups...
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_390.html (3633 words)

	A history of diversity - Inside Indonesia 78
		In West Kalimantan, people like to speak of the ‘three pillars’ (tiga tiang) that form the province’s most important ethnic groups (Dayak, Malay and Chinese) and emphasise the special claims of these three groups to the region.
		During World War II, the Japanese occupiers massacred hundreds of Chinese businessmen and community leaders, as well as Malay rulers and their relatives, and the tiny local intelligentsia of other ethnic groups.
		When the Chinese began to arrive in West Kalimantan, or Borneo, as it was then called, Malay principalities dominated the coastal and riverine areas, monopolising (or attempting to) trade with the uplands and drawing taxes and corvée labour from the subject Dayak peoples.
	www.serve.com /~inside/edit78/p09-10_heidhues.html (1423 words)

	Universitas Trisakti > Movie List
		Malay is an ethnic group who live in the region of Malacca Peninsula and covers part of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, and Philippine.
		Although Malay language comes from small ethnic group in Indonesia, since Malay is easy to understand, at the end the language could be accepted as base of Indonesian Language by another ethnic group.
		These characteristics of Malay language may be appearing in another element of Malay culture, such as in art, engineering and technology (architecture) of Malay houses.
	www.trisakti.ac.id /eventdetail.asp?EventID=6 (656 words)

	List of ethnic groups - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malay - dominant ethnic group in south-east Asia specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.
		Sherpa - group in Nepal and the Himalaya
		Dogon - The Dogon are an ethnic group located mainly in the administrative districts of Bandiagara and Douentza in Mali, West Africa.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups (3306 words)

	Learn more about List of ethnic groups in the online encyclopedia.
		Malay - dominant ethnic group in south-east Asia specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.
		Sherpa - group in Nepal and the Himalayas
		Palestinian - much-disputed ethnic group of the Middle East
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_ethnic_groups.html (1085 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Malay people
		The term Malay can refer to the ethnic group who live in the Malay peninsula and east Sumatra as well as the cultural sphere that encompass a large part of the archipelago.
		Malays are also linguistically related to the Polynesian and Micronesian groups of the mid-Pacific, as members of the wide ranging Austronesian family of languages.
		Malays (Dutch, Malayo, ultimately from Malay: Melayu) are a diverse group of people living in the Malay archipelago and Malay peninsula in South East Asia.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Malay_people (1132 words)

	Learn more about List of ethnic groups in the online encyclopedia.
		Malay - dominant ethnic group in south-east Asia specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.
		Monacan - Native American ethnic group, not to be confused with a person from Monaco
		Indigenous cultures, kingdoms and ethnic groups of Senegal
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_ethnic_groups.html (1132 words)

	List of ethnic groups
		Malay - dominant ethnic group in south-east Asia specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.
		This is a list of names of ethnic groupss.
		Baoule - major ethnic group in C�te d'Ivoire
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_ethnic_groups (1132 words)

	Malay people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malays are also linguistically related to the Polynesian and Micronesian groups of the mid-Pacific, as members of the far-flung Austronesian family of languages.
		Situated in the north-eastern coast of South America, the small Caribbean nation of Surinam also harbours a large Malay population, descendants of fairly recent ethnic Javanese immigrant workers.
		Many Malays in Mindanao were also Muslim, but are recounted to have been the 23rd and last group in the waves of migration, to have arrived in the Philippines from the south.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malay_people (1612 words)

	Ami -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		most numerous indigenous ethnic group on the island of Taiwan, numbering more than 124,000 in the late 20th century and located in the fertile but relatively inaccessible southeastern hilly region and along the eastern coastal plain.
		most numerous indigenous ethnic group on the island of Taiwan, numbering more than 124,000 in the late 20th century and located in the fertile but relatively inaccessible southeastern hilly region...
		Of Malay stock, they speak three dialects of an Indonesian-related language, also called Ami.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9006168 (1612 words)

	BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Country profiles Country profile: Malaysia
		The Malays remain the dominant group in politics while the Indians are among the poorest.
		Although since 1971 Malays have benefited from positive discrimination in business, education and the civil service, ethnic Chinese continue to hold economic power and are the wealthiest community.
		The United Malays National Organisation (Umno) is the biggest grouping in the alliance, which includes Chinese and Indian parties.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1304569.stm (895 words)

	The Crying Chinese Indonesians
		The Indonesian ethnic Chinese minority is the ONLY group of people in Indonesia who are officially PERSECUTED by the Suharto-led regime.
		The news media portrayed the Indonesian Malays as honest, decent, peace loving people who rioted because they were hungry, they were poor, and they were victimized by Suharto, and his filthy-rich Indonesian Chinese allies.
		Among the dead were more than 300,000 (some estimates ran up to more than 500,000) INNOCENT ethnic Chinese who had nothing to do with neither Suharto, nor PKI, were MURDERED.
	www.centurychina.com /plaboard/posts/3687868.shtml (2173 words)

	Malay people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malays are also linguistically related to the Polynesian and Micronesian groups of the mid-Pacific, as members of the far-flung Austronesian family of languages.
		Malays (Dutch, Malayo, ultimately from Malay: Melayu) are a diverse group of people inhabiting the Malay archipelago and Malay peninsula in Southeast Asia.
		Situated in the north-eastern coast of South America, the small Caribbean nation of Surinam also harbours a large Malay population, descendants of fairly recent ethnic Javanese immigrant workers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malay_people (1609 words)

	A Seed Company project description
		Interestingly, there is no separate ethnic group of Kupang Malay people.
		While Indonesian is used in government offices and in schools, people of diverse ethnic backgrounds use Kupang Malay widely for communication throughout the region.
		When people in the region read the first Kupang Malay Scriptures, the translation was clear enough that speakers of other languages realized they could use the Kupang text to begin drafting Scripture into their own mother-tongue languages.
	www.theseedcompany.org /project.det.asp?ProjectID=3315 (745 words)

	Creole language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Arabic-based creole spoken by descendants of Sudanese soldiers mainly in Kenya and Uganda, formed in the nineteenth century from a Sudanese Arabic-based pidgin used for intercommunication among southern Sudanese ethnic groups.
		It is a mixture of mainly Malay, Mandarin, Hokkien (a Chinese dialect), Tamil (a south Indian Dravidian language) and British English.
		In some cases the group of people who speak such a language are called Creoles.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Creole_language (1087 words)

	Malay
		They are now predominantly Sunni Muslims, although several Malay ethnic groups have remained animist, and there are a number of Malay Christians.
		Member of any of a large group of peoples comprising the majority population of the Malay Peninsula and archipelago, and also found in southern Thailand and coastal Sumatra and Borneo.
		Wet-rice agriculture was introduced in the 5th century and today the majority of Malays live in rural villages, usually surrounded by irrigated rice fields and gardens.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0023980.html (291 words)

	Malay people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malays are also linguistically related to the Polynesian and Micronesian groups of the mid-Pacific, as members of the far-flung Austronesian family of languages.
		Many Malays in Mindanao were also Muslim, but are recounted to have been the 23rd and last group in the waves of migration, to have arrived in the Philippines from the south.
		Situated in the north-eastern coast of South America, the small Caribbean nation of Surinam also harbours a large Malay population, descendants of fairly recent ethnic Javanese immigrant workers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malay_people (1603 words)

	Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malays, who are the indigenous native group of the country, constitute 13.9 percent, though this number includes many Malay ethnic groups from other parts of the Malay archipelago including the Javanese, Bugis, Baweans and Minangs.
		The Republic of Singapore (Simplified Chinese: 新加坡共和国; Pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Gònghéguó, Malay: Republik Singapura; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் குடியரசு), is an island city-state in Southeast Asia, situated on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of the Indonesian Riau Islands.
		As Singapore is a small and relatively modern amalgam of semi-indigenous Malay population with the majority Chinese and the minority Indian and Arab migrants with little intermarriage, there appears little in the way of specifically Singaporean culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Singapore (4324 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		Malay Peninsula -> People The Malays, historically the dominant cultural group, probably came originally from S China (c.2,000 BC), but marriages with other peoples have modified their ethnic characteristics.
		Malay Peninsula Malay Peninsulamelā´, mā´lā, southern extremity (c.70,000 sq mi/181,300 sq km) of the continent of Asia, lying between the Andaman Sea of the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Malacca on the west and the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea on the east.
		Malay Peninsula -> History The Malay Peninsula was visited near the beginning of the Christian era by traders from India and in the succeeding centuries received, like Indonesia and Indochina, Buddhist and Brahman missionaries and Hindu colonists.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Malay+Singaporean (510 words)

	Malay Peninsula on Encyclopedia.com
		The Malays, historically the dominant cultural group, probably came originally from S China (c.2,000 BC), but marriages with other peoples have modified their ethnic characteristics.
		MALAY PENINSULA [Malay Peninsula], southern extremity (c.70,000 sq mi/181,300 sq km) of the continent of Asia, lying between the Andaman Sea of the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Malacca on the west and the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea on the east.
		The Malay Peninsula was visited near the beginning of the Christian era by traders from India and in the succeeding centuries received, like Indonesia and Indochina, Buddhist and Brahman missionaries and Hindu colonists.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MalayP1en.asp (1328 words)

	Malay Peninsula -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		any member of an ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula and portions of adjacent islands of Southeast Asia, including the east coast of Sumatra, the coast of Borneo, and smaller islands that lie between these areas.
		The Malay speak various dialects belonging to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family of languages.
		Overview of this town located in southern Thailand, on the Malay Peninsula.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9371063 (744 words)

	Malay Peninsula: People
		The Malays, historically the dominant cultural group, probably came originally from S China (c.2,000 B.C.), but marriages with other peoples have modified their ethnic characteristics.
		The Chinese are now nearly as numerous as the Malays; Indians and Thais form important minority groups.
		Texts, raja ismail and violence: siak and the transformation of malay identity in the eighteenth century.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0859443.html (209 words)

	Malay Heritage Centre (Istana Kampong Gelam) Museum/Attraction Review Singapore Frommers.com
		When the Malay Heritage Centre opened its doors in November 2004, it became the first museum dedicated to the history, culture, and arts of this oftentimes marginalized ethnic group.
		Eventually, Sultan Hussein's family was given the boot by the government to make way for this museum heralding the value of the Malay, and the Sultan's, cultural contribution to Singapore.
		The museum is housed in the Istana Kampong Gelam, the former royal palace that housed the descendents of the original sultan that oversaw Singapore.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/singapore/A23786.html (414 words)

	Africa Dreams » Cape Malay Recipes?
		When I put a Cape Malay recipe or recipe from any other African ethnic group on my website or in any of my cookbooks they have not been created by me. They have been given to me, shared with me by friends.
		Unfortunately, people who know nothing about the Cape Malay people, or their origins, accept things solely because they appear in writing on a website.
		The very idea of a Cape Malay Muslim preparing a pork recipe or recipe containing pork would be anathema to any member of the Cape Malay community.
	www.africhef.com /blog/index.php?p=7 (664 words)

	Malay -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Malay Orang Melayu (“Malay People”) any member of an ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula and portions of adjacent islands of Southeast Asia, including the east coast of Sumatra, the coast of Borneo, and smaller islands that lie between these areas.
		The Malay speak various dialects belonging to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family of languages.
		former sovereign state in the Commonwealth, nearly all on Malay Peninsula; included Federated Malay States, Unfederated Malay States, and two states (Malacca and Penang, the latter with Province Wellesley) of Straits Settlements; became part of nation Malaysia 1963; 50,690 sq mi (131,290 sq km); cap.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9050290 (715 words)

	Ethnologue: Singapore
		CHINESE, MIN DONG [ CDO ] 15,000 speakers of Foochow out of 31,391 in ethnic group in Singapore (1985).
		(MIN PEI) [ MNP ] 4,000 speakers of Hokchia out of 11,000 in ethnic group in Singapore (1985); 10,537,000 in all countries.
		Total ethnic Chinese are 2,227,000 or 76.4% of the population.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Sing.html (715 words)

	Minorities At Risk (MAR)
		Some Chinese have resided in the country for centuries while other group members immigrated to Malaysia in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
		However, in August and December of 2000, anti-Chinese demonstrations were held by the Malay community against a newly-formed Chinese organization that was advocating equal civil and political rights for group members.
		Following Japan's defeat, ethnic violence ensued as the MPAJA tried to establish political control in the Malayan peninsula by undertaking violent actions against suspected Malay collaborators.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/malchi.htm (932 words)

	Singapore: A Multilingual, Multiethnic Country
		Within the English-medium schools, students must study the language assigned to their ethnic group as a subject.
		The Malays are a more homogenous group and tend to continue to maintain the use of Malay in the home although there is some increased use of English during family activities (Saravanan, 1999).
		Mandarin has a higher prestige over Malay and Tamil because is represents the majority and due to the annual "Speak Mandarin Campaigns." Saravanan (1999) found that within Chinese families, English is preferred during all family activities.
	www.emu.edu /courses/eddt582/singapore.html (932 words)

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