Orang Asli
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The Orang Asli are a heterogeneous Indigenous population forming a national minority in Malaysia. They are the oldest inhabitants of Peninsular Malaysia.
A group of Orang Asli from Malacca in folk costume
Orang Asli near Cameron Highlands playing a nose flute
A Semang man from Kuala Aring, Ulu Kelantan, 1902
A group of Senoi men from Perak, 1901
Aslian languages
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The Aslian languages are the southernmost branch of Austroasiatic languages spoken on the Malay Peninsula. They are the languages of many of the Orang Asli, the aboriginal inhabitants of the peninsula
Orang Asli
…are mostly descended from the people of the Hoabinhian cultural period, with many of their burials found dating back 10,000 years ago. They speak the Aslian languages branch of the Mon-Khmer languages, which are part of the Austroasiatic language family, as do their Senoi agriculturalist neighbours. Most of them…
Aslian language classification