Orang Asli
See also: orang asli
English
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Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Malay Orang Asli, from orang (“person[s], people[s]”) + asli (“native”), calque of English aborigine.
Noun
[edit]Orang Asli (plural Orang Asli)
- Several different indigenous people of Malaya and peninsular Thailand.
Anagrams
[edit]Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of orang (“people”) + asli (“native”), calque of English aborigine. Not used prior to World War II.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]- The several different indigenous peoples of the Malay Peninsula that are of either Austroasiatic (e.g. Semang) or Austronesian (e.g. Jakun) descent.
Descendants
[edit]- → English: Orang Asli
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Asmah Haji Omar (2018) “Malayic aborigines of Malaysia: A study in subgrouping”, in Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal[1], volume 5, number 3, page 452:
- The Malaysian aborigines are better known by the Malay term Orang Asli (Original People). This is in fact a new term, a translation from the English word aborigines which came into effect after the Second World War, when it was deemed expedient on the part of the British colonial government to place the various groups of these peoples into one category vis-à-vis the Malays who formed the majority section of the native population of Malaya (now Peninsular Malaysia).
Further reading
[edit]- “Orang Asli” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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