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    The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period...
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    The Malay Archipelago (Indonesian/Malay: Kepulauan Melayu, Filipino: Kapuluang Malayo) also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago is the...
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    Malays (/məˈleɪ/ mə-LAY; Malay: Orang Melayu, Jawi: أورڠ ملايو‎) are an Austronesian ethnoreligious group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula...
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  • brought the Latin alphabet to the Malay Archipelago. As the Malay-speaking countries were divided between two colonial administrations (the Dutch and the British)...
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    nationalized as the Dutch East Indies. By then it exerted territorial control over much of the archipelago, most notably on Java. In 1603, the first permanent...
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    Cornelis de Houtman also realized the linguistic links between Madagascar and the Malay Archipelago prior to Reland in 1603. The Spanish philologist Lorenzo...
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  • Malaysian Malay, the official form of the Malay language in Malaysia Malayic languages, a group of closely related languages in the Malay Archipelago Malay trade...
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    The Malay world or Malay realm (Malay: Dunia Melayu or Alam Melayu) is a concept or an expression that has been used by different authors and groups over...
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    Alfred Russel Wallace (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    as On the Origin of Species. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, starting in the Amazon River basin. He then did fieldwork in the Malay Archipelago, where...
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    from the Indonesian archipelago (inc. Acehnese, Banjarese, Bugis, Mandailing, Minangkabau and Javanese) as Malays. Indonesia is the birthplace of the Malay...
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  • the eastern part of the Malay or Nusantara archipelago and include Makassar Malay, Manado Malay, Ambonese Malay, North Moluccan Malay, Kupang Malay,...
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    Malay Singaporeans (Malay: Orang Melayu Singapura) are Singaporeans of Malay ancestry, including those from the Malay Archipelago. They constitute approximately...
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    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. The Proto-Malays...
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  • Kingdoms or polities, both historical and present, established in Malay world or Malay Archipelago. Most prominent among others are Malacca Sultanate, Johor-Riau-Lingga...
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    century definitions encompassed the region as beginning in the Malay Archipelago, and as ending near the Americas. In the 19th century, many geographers...
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  • Alor Malay is a Malay-based creole language spoken in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. Speakers perceive Alor Malay to be a different register of standard...
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  • geographically removed from the Malay heartlands in the western archipelago. It is sharply distinct from other eastern Indonesian varieties of Malay, differing both...
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    Oceania (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    continental landmasses and adjacent islands. The islands of the Malay Archipelago, north of Australia, mainly lie on the continental shelf of Asia, and their...
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  • the south East Asia Archipelago as far as the Philippines. That contact resulted in a lingua franca ("trade language") that was called Bazaar Malay or...
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    Chersonese Malay Archipelago Malaya (disambiguation) Malaysia–Thailand border Tenasserim Hills Malay: Semenanjung Tanah Melayu or Semenanjung Melayu The Physical...
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    Sunda Islands (category Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean)
    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Sunda Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Sunda) are a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago. They consist of the Greater...
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  • 500 metres) in the Malay Archipelago, a group of over 25,000 islands which includes Brunei, Singapore, East Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and...
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    well as the Islamic era, in which various sultanates and Islamic states were formed in Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago, and around Manila. Malays made large...
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    Massaman curry (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    combining ingredients from three sources: Persia, the Indian Subcontinent, and the Malay Archipelago (e.g., cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, star anise, cumin...
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    Malay was first used in the first millennia known as Old Malay, a part of the Austronesian language family. Over a period of two millennia, Malay has...
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    East Indies (redirect from The indies)
    the Indian subcontinent and the Indochinese Peninsula along with the Malay Archipelago. During the era of European colonization, territories of the Spanish...
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    generally taken to mean the Indonesian Archipelago. Outside of Indonesia, the term has been adopted to refer the Malay Archipelago. The word Nusantara is taken...
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  • been dated to the second half of the 4th century AD. They attest to the emergence of an Indianized state in the Indonesian archipelago prior to AD 400...
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    from the South Sea to Takakusu's Record of the Buddhist Religion as Practised in India and the Malay Archipelago to Record of Buddhist Practices. The book...
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    separates the biogeographical realms of Asia and 'Wallacea', a transitional zone between Asia and Australia also called the Malay Archipelago and the Indo-Australian...
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