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The Orang Laut are several seafaring ethnic groups and tribes living around Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian Riau Islands. The Orang Laut are commonly identified as the Orang Seletar from the Straits of Johor , but the term may also refer to any Malayic -speaking people living on coastal islands, including those of the Mergui ...
The Sama-Bajau include several Austronesian ethnic groups of Maritime Southeast Asia.The name collectively refers to related people who usually call themselves the Sama or Samah (formally A'a Sama, "Sama people"); [5] or are known by the exonym Bajau (/ ˈ b ɑː dʒ aʊ, ˈ b æ-/, also spelled Badjao, Bajaw, Badjau, Badjaw, Bajo or Bayao).
Sama-Bajau peoples, a collective name for several ethnic groups in the Philippines, Sabah, eastern Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, and parts of Sarawak; Moken, an Austronesian ethnic group who maintain a nomadic, sea-based culture; Orang Laut, a group of Malay people living in the Riau Islands of Indonesia
They are also considered as Orang Laut due to them residing in settlements that are nearby seasides and work as fishermen. [12] They are believed to have migrated from the islands in southern Johor to the coastal shores of Selangor in order to escape from their enemies.
The first recorded inhabitants at Batam Island are Malays known as Orang Laut, from the year 231 AD. [10] The island group once served as the field of struggle of Admiral Hang Nadim , against Portuguese invaders in the 16th century, and was utilised by the Indonesian government in the 1960s, who maintained a petroleum logistics base on Sambu ...
Mapun is spoken on Cagayan de Sulu island, Tawi-Tawi, Philippines. Ethnologue provides the following location information for various Sama languages. Northern Sama is located in western Mindanao , the Sulu archipelago northeast of Jolo , Zamboanga coast peninsula and islands, and Basilan island.
A three-masted sampan panjang from about 1880, from a model in the Raffles Museum collection. Sampan panjang was a type of Malay fast boat from the 19th century. It was used especially by the sampan-men, or "Orang Laut" (lit. "sea people").
The indigenous inhabitants of Malacca and the strait, the Orang Laut, who were variouslt known as the loyal servants of Malay rulers since the time of Singapura and Srivijaya and ferocious pirates, were said to have been employed by Parameswara to patrol the adjacent seas, to repel other petty pirates, and to direct traders to their Malay ...