Malays (ethnic group)
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![]() Malays at a weddin. | |
Tot population | |
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(c. 24.38 million) | |
Regions wi signeeficant populations | |
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Native aurie | . |
![]() | 5,365,399[3] |
![]() | 1,964,384[4] |
![]() | 653,449[5] |
Diaspora | . |
![]() | ~200,000[6]note |
![]() | 40,189[7]note |
![]() | 33,183[8] |
![]() | ~33,000[9] |
![]() | ~27,000[10] |
Leids | |
Offeecial:
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Releegion | |
All ![]() | |
^ note: Heichly naituralised population o mixed origins, but uisin the 'Malay' identity |
Malays (Malay: Melayu, Jawi: ملايو) are an ethnic group o Austronesian fowks predominantly inhabitin the Malay Peninsula, eastren Sumatra an coastal Borneo, as well as the smawer islands which lie atween thir locations — auries that are collectively kent as the Malay warld.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Economic Planning Unit (Malaysia) 2010
- ↑ CIA Warld Factbook 2012
- ↑ Badan Pusat Statistika Indonesia 2010, p. 9
- ↑ Warld Population Review 2015
- ↑ CIA Warld Factbook 2012
- ↑ Malay, Cape in South Africa - Joshua Project
- ↑ Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka - Population by ethnic group according to districts, 2012
- ↑ Australia - Ancestry
- ↑ Malay in United Kingdom - Joshua Project
- ↑ Malay in Myanmar - Joshua Project