Indigenous people in Southeast Asia?

Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei and other countries living in Southeast Asia are still called Malays. Most of them are Malays and descendants of Malays, and their society, economy and culture are relatively developed. With the development of history, these Malays began to show differences, each with its own national characteristics. Malays in Malaysia call themselves Malays. Mainly distributed in the south-central Malay Peninsula and Sarawak. Most of them are descendants of China, Indians, Thais and Arabs. Malay is used, belonging to the Indonesian family of Austronesian languages, and there are many dialects. The original Arabic alphabet was changed to Latin alphabet. Originally believed in Hinduism, Buddhism and animism, most of them converted to Islam at the end of 15, belonging to Sunnis. Some people believe in Christianity and Catholicism. Family organizations are generally two-line except the matriarchal system of Nansenbilan. Malays mainly grow rice, rubber, coconut, coffee, cinchona and oil palm, and have excellent vegetable planting techniques. Fisheries and navigation are developed.

Malays in a broad sense refer to ethnic groups distributed in the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean island countries. It belongs to Mongolian Malay type. The commonly used language is the Indonesian family of Austronesian languages. Its ethnic origin is still inconclusive. Most researchers believe that the ancestors of Malays gradually moved southward from the interior of Asia about 5,000 years ago, moved to Indo-China Peninsula, entered Sumatra via the Malay Peninsula (andaman islands), and then spread eastward to Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and the Philippine Islands, and westward to Madagascar. This wave of migration lasted for thousands of years. Generally speaking, according to the migration time, there are two kinds: primitive Malays (including ancient Malays) and new Malays. Primitive Malays migrated from 3000 BC to 1000 BC, with a low level of social development. New Malays migrated from about 2 BC to16th century, and were influenced by Indian, China and Arabic cultures, with a high level of social development. Malays from all over the world left a large number of descendants in their distribution areas, and mixed with local residents and each other to varying degrees, and developed into Javanese, Sunda, Madura, Tagalog, Ifugao, Madagascar and other ethnic groups with different names.

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Malayan

Malays (Malay: Melayu), also known as witches and Malays, are a nation in Southeast Asia. Malays are one of the aborigines in Southeast Asia. Compared with the nations all over the world, Malay is a very young nation.

Malays believe in Islam, mainly distributed in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and southern Thailand in Southeast Asia. In addition, there are Malays in South Africa.

The origin of Malay names

Some historians believe that the name "Meilayu" may come from an ancient country in Sumatra, which was founded by Indians about 1500 years ago-the late Luoyu (also called "Meilayu" in Malay). Luoyu site is located near Shuangxi Merayus [3], a tributary of the upper reaches of a river [2] on Sumatra Island. Later, Luo Yu was annexed by Sanfo Qi, another famous ancient country on Sumatra.

Another way of saying it is that the noun Melayu comes from a word pronounced Malaya[4] in Indian Sanskrit. This Sanskrit word means mountain or high place.

The origin of Malays

Where the Malays came from is still inconclusive in the history circle. But there are two main theories, one is from Yunnan, China, and the other is from Malay Archipelago.

Yunnan origin theory

The main supporters of Yunnan origin theory are R.H. Geldern, J.H. Kern, J. R Foster, J. R Logan, Slamet Muljana and Asmah Haji Omar.

The basis of Yunnan origin theory is as follows:

(1) The ancient axe found in the Malay Archipelago is similar to some areas in Central Asia, indicating that Central Asian residents migrated to the Malay Archipelago.

(2) Malay customs are similar to Assam (Assam is the area between India and Myanmar).

Malay is similar to Cambodian, and Cambodians are thought to come from Yunnan. They went south along the Mekong River to Cambodia.

The origin theory of Yunnan is accepted by the general public, and Malaysian middle school history textbooks all introduce that Malays originated in Yunnan. According to this theory, the ancestors of Malays migrated from Yunnan to the Malay Archipelago in two batches in different ages. The ancestors of these two groups of Malays were called Primitive Malays (Malay: Melayu Proto) and Mixed Malays (Malay: Melayu Deutro) respectively.

Primitive Malays and mixed-race Malays are also called Austronesian languages (Malay: Indonesians [5]), and their culture is Neolithic culture. Austronesian language family is actually the last people to move into Malay archipelago. Before that, there were Australians (English: Australoid), Duolun people in Li Ni (English: Negrito) and melanesians (English: Melanesoid).

The following is an introduction to these two groups of immigrants:

Primitive Malays

According to unearthed cultural relics, primitive Malays lived in the Malay archipelago in 2500 BC. They have agricultural skills.

Mixed-race Malay

They existed in the Malay archipelago from 65438 BC to 0500 BC. Most of them live by the sea and have developed fisheries.

On the origin of Malay archipelago

The Origin of Malay Archipelago is supported by J Crawford, K Himmli, Sutan Takdir Ali Chabanne and Goris Clough.

The following is the origin of the Malay archipelago.

Malays and Javanese have a high culture in the19th century. This achievement can only be achieved by the continuous development of local ancient culture. In this way, Malays don't come from anywhere. But born and raised.

K.Himly disagrees that Malay is similar to Cambodian. It is not enough to think that the similarity between the two languages is only a superficial impression.

The fossils of Thoreau ape-man [6] (Thoreau in Malay) and Vijai [7] (Wajak in Malay) found in Java Island indicate that Malays originated in the Malay Islands, and perhaps Malays came from Java Island.

The languages of all ethnic groups in Malay archipelago are different from Indo-European languages in Central Asia.

The origin theory of Malay archipelago is supported by only a few people in Malaysia.

The difference between Malaysians and Malays

Malays are not short for Malaysians, but a major ethnic group in Malaysia.

Malaysians are referred to as Malaysians for short, and Malaysians refer to people with Malaysian nationality. There are three major ethnic groups, namely Malays, Chinese, Indians and other ethnic minorities. Every nation has preserved its own culture and customs. At the same time, we also respect the cultures and customs of other races.

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Luo Yu is the official Chinese translation of Malaysian Chinese, so the translation is to distinguish two different meanings of Melayu.

The Malay river name Sungai Batang Hari cannot be translated into Chinese.

Sungai Melayu has no Chinese translation. Sungai is a river in Malay, and Sungai Melayu can be translated as "Moloyu River".

For example, the Himalayas, Sanskrit is the Himalayas. Yima means ice and snow and cold; Malaya is a mountain, and Himalaya means snow mountain in Sanskrit.

Malay Indonesian is also the name of modern Indonesians, while Austronesian is the official Chinese translation of Chinese in Malaysia. Distinguish two different Indonesians.

Thoreau ape-man fossils were found near the Thoreau River (Malay: Sungai Solo) in Java, hence the name. Thoreau's ape-man walked upright, but did not leave the ape-man stage.

The fossils of the Vijaya people (Malay: Wajak) were found on the south coast of Java Island. This is the earliest human fossil found in Southeast Asia. It lived about 12000 years ago.

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