English Explanatory Dictionary

Proto-Malay

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

Proto-Malay Proto-Malays

Etymology

From proto- + Malay.

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