• Jahai (Jehai) is an aboriginal Mon–Khmer language spoken by the Jahai people living in the montane rainforests of northern Peninsular Malaysia and southernmost...
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    led to a rich odor lexicon in the Jahai language, a trait also shared among the Maniq people in Thailand. The Jahai people, who are traditionally nomadic...
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    Kensiu, Kintaq, Jahai, Minriq, Batek, Cheq Wong, Lanoh, Temiar, Semai, Jah Hut, Mah Meri, Semaq Beri, Semelai and Temoq. Aslian languages originally appeared...
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  • Look up Jahai in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jahai may refer to: Jahai people, an indigenous Orang Asli people in Malaysia Jahai language, a part...
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    Semang (category Articles containing Malay (macrolanguage)-language text)
    extended languages and dialects such as Kensiu language, Kentaq Bong dialect, Kintaq Nakil dialect, Jahai language, Minriq language, Bateg Deq language, Mintil...
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  • Maniq: Jahai language "Ten'edn". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-25. Ewelina Wnuk & Asifa Majid (April 2014). "Revisiting the limits of language: The odor...
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    Aslian proper Eastern Batek (Batek Deq and Batek Nong), Mintil (Batek Tanɨm) Jahai (Jehai), Minriq (Menriq) Jedek Western Kintaq Kensiu (Maniq) (unclassified)...
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    Orang Asli (category CS1 Malay-language sources (ms))
    Eastern subgroup Jahai language (ISO-3 code: jhi) Mindriq language (ISO-3 code: mnq) Mintil language (ISO-3 code: mzt) Batek language (ISO-3 code: btq)...
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    The indigenous languages of Malaysia belong to the Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian families. The national, or official, language is Malay which is the...
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  • An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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    vocabulary used in their speech community. Some speech communities, including Jahai- and Thai-speaking hunter-gatherers, mostly use dedicated abstract vocabulary...
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  • Jhi or JHI may refer to: Jahai language James Hutton Institute Jewish Historical Institute Jhi Yeon-woo (born 1984), South Korean bodybuilder Ji (Korean...
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  • speakers have no autonym (endonym). Nearby Aslian speakers, particular the Jahai and Menriq, refer to them as the Jdɛk [ɟᶽəˈdɛk˺]. Jedek is spoken by about...
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    home to 51 living indigenous languages and 24 living non-indigenous languages, with the majority of people speaking languages of the Southwestern Tai family...
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    reminiscent of popcorn or corn chips, described as "ltpɨt" by the Malaysian Jahai people, likely due to the volatile compound 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline in the...
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    Batek's closest linguistic relatives Jahai and distantly related to other Aslian languages. Despite being a small language, it has quite a number of dialects...
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  • areas of cognition to a limited degree. For instance, her work with the Jahai people of Southeast Asia shows that these people are as proficient in naming...
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    closer genetic relationship to the two subgroups of the Orang Asli Semang, Jahai and Kensiu, than other Malay groups. Four of the Malay sub-ethnic groups...
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    Andamanese. Overall, the Malaysian Negritos (Semang), such as the Maniq people, Jahai people, and Batek people, are the closest modern living relatives of the...
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    Senoi (section Language)
    languages, which in turn form a branch of Austroasiatic languages. Many of them are also bilingual in the national language, the Malaysian language (Bahasa...
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    Andamanese Ati people Batak (Philippines) Mamanwa Orang Asli Semang Batek Jahai Lanoh Mani (Mani people are closely related to Kensiu people in neighbouring...
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  • Proto-Aslian is the reconstructed proto-language of the Aslian languages of Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand. It has been reconstructed by Timothy...
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    term Orang Utara is more politically neutral. This also extends to their language, which is called Pelat Utara or Northern Dialect. However, the Kedahan...
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    Besides Malay, there are also various minority languages spoken throughout Kedah, Aslian languages such as Jahai, Kensiu and Kintaq are spoken by the small...
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  • themselves as Menik Semnam (meaning "Semnam people" or "Orang Semnam" in Malay language), a name that refers to the Lanoh people that lived at the Semnam River...
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    76% of the population is ethnic Kelantanese Malays, 13% are Orang Asli (Jahai, Temiar, Mendriq and Batek), 5% Malaysian Chinese, 5% non-Malaysians and...
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    among indigenous Southeast Asian groups, such as the Andamanese or the Jahai people. P is downstream to haplogroup K2b found among the Upper Paleolithic...
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    Aeta (from the Philippines); but not in East Asians, western Indonesians, Jahai people (from Malaysia), or Onge (from the Andaman Islands). This may suggest...
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    R12'21 R12: Found in Australia. R21: In indigenous peoples of Malaysia like Jahai Negritos at 63% and Senoi 37% as well as in the Maniq of Southern Thailand...
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    native to Peninsular Malaysia. They consisted of three main groups: the Jahai, the Temiar, and the Senoi and lived in the remote jungle interior of the...
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