Proto-Malays

A form of Proto-Malay — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Proto-Malay
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