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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An Austronesian speaker who moved from mainland Asia to the Malay peninsula and Malay archipelago in a long series of migrations between 2500 and 1500 BC, before that of the Deutero-Malays about a thousand years later. historical

Synonyms

All synonyms

old malay

Etymology

From proto- + Malay.

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