Aboriginal Malay languages

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Aboriginal Malay
Geographic
distribution:
Peninsular Malaysia
Genetic
classification
:
Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
  Nuclear MP
   Sunda-Sulawesi
    Malayic
     Malayan
      Aboriginal Malay
Subdivisions:


The Aboriginal Malay languages is a subcategory of languages spoken by the Orang Asli community in Peninsular Malaysia. There are four languages in the subcategory, which are the Jakun, Orang Kanaq (lit. Kanaq people), Orang Seletar (lit. Seletar people) and Temuan languages.[1]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Ethnologue