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Malay may refer to:

Languages

  • Malay language or Bahasa Melayu, a major Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore
    • History of the Malay language#Old Malay, the Malay language from the 4th to the 14th century
    • Indonesian language, the official form of the Malay language in Indonesia
  • Malayan languages, a group of closely related languages in the Malay Archipelago
  • Malay trade and creole languages, a set of pidgin languages throughout the Sumatra, Malay Peninsula and the entire Malay archipelago
  • Brunei Malay, an unofficial national language of Brunei distinct from standard Malay
  • Kedah Malay, a variety of the Malaya languages spoken in Malaysia and Thailand
  • Sri Lankan Creole Malay, a language spoken by the Malay race minority in Sri Lanka

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 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 Malay, 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
    • 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

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

Nation-states

  • Peninsular Malaysia, a group of nine states of Malaysia (all located in West Malaysia) which have hereditary rulers
  • Malaysia, the modern country that encompasses most of the ancient Malay ethnic group states

Historical Kingdoms

  • Melayu Kingdom, a 7th-century classical Southeast Asian kingdom in Sumatra, Indonesia

Animals

  • Malay chicken, 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
  • 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, 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
  • Malaysian (disambiguation)
  • Malaya (disambiguation)
  • Malays (disambiguation)
  • Melee (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Malay
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