Malay

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Malay may refer to:

Languages

• Malayic languages, a branch of closely related Austronesian languages spoken in the Malay Archipelago in Maritime Southeast Asia
  • Malay language or Bahasa Melayu, a major Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore
    • History of the Malay language, the Malay language from the 4th to the 14th century
    • Indonesian language, the official form of the Malay language in Indonesia
    • Malaysian Malay, the official form of the Malay language in Malaysia, also known as Standard Malay
  • Malay trade and creole languages, a set of pidgin languages
    • Cocos Malay, spoken by the Cocos Malays in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island, Australia
    • Sri Lanka Malay language, spoken by the Malay race minority in Sri Lanka
  • Bangka Malay, a Malayic language spoken on the island of Bangka, Indonesia
  • Berau Malay, a Malayic language spoken in Berau Regency, Indonesia
  • Brunei Malay, a variety of the Malay language spoken in Brunei, distinct from standard Malay
  • Kedah Malay, a variety of the Malay languages spoken in Malaysia and Thailand
  • Kelantan–Pattani Malay, variety of Malay spoken in State of Kelantan, Malaysia and South Thailand
  • Jambi Malay, a Malayic language primarily spoken by the Jambi Malay people in Jambi, Indonesia
  • Malayic Dayak languages, a dialect chain of Malayic spoken in West and Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
    • Ketapang Malay, spoken by the Malay people in parts of West Kalimantan
  • Negeri Sembilan Malay, a language spoken in Malaysia by the descendants of Minangkabau settlers from Sumatra, related to Standard Malay
  • Pahang Malay, a Malayic language spoken in the Malaysian state of Pahang
  • Perak Malay, spoken within the state of Perak, Malaysia
  • Pontianak Malay, a Malayic language primarily spoken in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
  • Reman Malay, a Malayic language spoken in the Malaysian states of Kedah and Perak
  • Riau Malay language, a dialect continuum of Malayic languages primarily spoken by the Riau Malays in Riau and the Riau Islands in Indonesia
  • Sarawak Malay, a Malayic language native to the State of Sarawak, Malaysia
  • South Barisan Malay, or Central Malay or Middle Malay, collection of closely related Malayic isolects spoken in southwestern Sumatra
  • Terengganu Malay, a Malayic language spoken in far Eastern Malaysia

Race and ethnic groups

• Malay race, a racial category used in the late 19th and early 20th century to describe Austronesian peoples
  • Overseas Malays, people of Malay race ancestry living outside Malay archipelago home areas
  • Cape Malays, a Malay race descent or community in South Africa
  • Cocos Malays, the predominant ethnic group (Malay race descent) of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, now part of Australia.
  • Sri Lankan Malays, a Malay race descent or community in Sri Lanka
• Malays (ethnic group), the ethnic group located primarily in the Malay peninsula, and parts of Sumatra and Borneo
  • Bruneian Malay people, ethnic Malays in Brunei Darussalam
  • Malaysian Malays, a constitutionally defined group of Muslim Malaysian citizens
  • Malay Indonesian, ethnic Malays in Indonesia
  • Malay Singaporeans, a broad ethnic group defined by the Singaporean government
  • Riau Malays, ethnic Malays who inhabit the area of Riau and the Riau Islands
  • Thai Malays, ethnic Malays in Thailand

People

• Malay (record producer) (born 1978), American music producer
• Jessi Malay (born 1986), American singer in No Secrets
• Malay Ghosh (born 1944), Indian statistician and Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida
• Malay Roy Choudhury (born 1939), Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s
• Malay Banerjee (born 1955), Indian former cricketer
• Malay Bhowmick (born 1956)
• Andrei Malay (born 1973)
• Charlie Malay (1879–1905), professional baseball player
• Joe Malay (1905–1989), American baseball player
• Alicia Malay, American politician

Places

• Malay, Azerbaijan, a village in Azerbaijan
• Malay, Aklan, a municipality in the Philippines
• Malay, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire département of France
• Malay Archipelago, the group of islands located between mainland Southeast Asia and Australia
• Malay-le-Grand, a commune in the Yonne département of France
• Malay-le-Petit, a commune in the Yonne département of France
• Malay Peninsula, the geographic area containing Malaysia and Singapore, as well as parts of Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand
• Malay Sheykh-e Ginklik, a village in Golestan Province, Iran
• Malay Town, the unofficial name for an area of Cairns in Australia

Animals

• Malay Game, a breed of chicken originating in Asia
• Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni), a subspecies of tiger from the Malay peninsula

Ships

• SS Malay, a Norwegian cargo ship in service from 1959 to 1961 and now known as SS Ambria
• SS Malay, an American oil tanker built in 1921
• USS Malay (SP-735), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919

Other uses

• Malay alphabet, the more common of the two alphabets used today to write the Malay language
• Malay cuisine, the cuisine of Malay people of Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Mindanao and Southern Thailand
• Malay Village, a museum in Geylang, Singapore
• Malay world, geopolitical and sociolinguistic term for the Malay-speaking countries of Southeast Asia, or the homeland of the Austronesian people

See also

• Malay grammar, the body of rules that describe the structure of expressions in the Malay language
• Malay Democrats of the Philippines, a political party of the Philippines
• Malay Falls, Nova Scotia, a community in Canada
• Malayalis, also spelt Malayalee, a Dravidian ethnic group originating in South India
• Malayalamoid languages, a group of Dravidian languages native to South India
  • Malayalam, one of the eleven classical languages of India
• Malaysian (disambiguation)
• Malaya (disambiguation)
• Malays (disambiguation)
• Melee (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Malay

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