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Proto-Malays

Proto-Malays is the plural of Proto-Malay.

Meaning of Proto-Malay

Noun

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.

Questions about Proto-Malays

What is Proto-Malays the plural of?
Proto-Malays is the plural of Proto-Malay.

Words near Proto-Malays in the dictionary

  1. Proto-Malay
  2. Proto-Malayic
  3. Proto-Malayo-Chamic
  4. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
  5. Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan
  6. Proto-Malays
  7. proto-manganese
  8. proto-Mars
  9. proto-matter
  10. Proto-Mayan
  11. Proto-Mediterranean

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Proto-Malays (page history and authors); Proto-Malay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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