Proto-Malay

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

proto- +‎ Malay

Noun[edit]

Proto-Malay (plural Proto-Malays)

  1. (historical) An Austronesian speaker who moved from mainland Asia to the Malay peninsula 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.