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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).
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 ...
In many Philippine languages, the UV construction is said to be basic. This has led people to analyse the languages as syntactically ergative. [7] This analysis has been proposed for Sama Southern, [8] Yakan, [9] Sama Bangingi’, [10] and Sama Pangutaran. [11] These languages are said to have Philippine-type voice systems.
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
The aboriginal communities from Orang Asli and Orang Laut who constituted a majority original population of Melaka were also Malayised and incorporated into the hierarchical structure of Melaka. So successfully did Melakan rulers equate the kingdom with "Melayu" that one Malay text describes how, after a defeat, the people of Melaka fled into ...
Orang Laut, Urak Lawoi’ people, Moken people, Orang Seletar The Duano' people, also called Desin Dolak or Desin Duano' are an indigenous people of Malaysia and Indonesia (where they are also referred to as Orang Kuala , meaning "People of the Estuary") and can be found in islands along the northeastern region of Sumatra , Indonesia where most ...
Pangutaran Sama, also known as Siyama, is an Austronesian language spoken in the Sulu Archipelago of the Philippines. The language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages.
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").