Tags: Ethnic Group.
Malays (Malay: Melayu Jawi: ملايو) are an ethnic group of Austronesian people predominantly inhabiting the Malay Peninsula eastern Sumatra southernmost parts of Thailand south coast Burma island of Singapore coastal Borneo including Brunei West Kalimantan and coastal Sarawak and Sabah and the smaller islands which lie between these locations – that collectively known as the Alam Melayu.