Malaysian Siamese

Malaysian Siamese
Orang Siam Malaysia
ชาวมาเลเซียเชื้อสายไทย
	A group of Siamese theatre performers in Kuala Lebir (present day, Kuala Krai District), Kelantan, July 1909.
Total population
	80,000
Regions with significant populations
	Malaysia
Languages
	Southern Thai (native);; Standard Malay, Kedah Malay, Kelantan-Patani Malay, Standard Thai, Chinese languages, English
Religion
	Predominantly Theravada Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
	Other Tai peoples;

The Malaysian Siamese (Malay: Orang Siam Malaysia) are an ethnicity or community who principally resides in Peninsular Malaysia which is a relatively homogeneous cultural region to Southern Burma and Southern Thailand but was separated by the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Siam. The treaty established the modern Malaysia-Thailand Border which starts from Golok River in Kelantan and ends at Padang Besar in Perlis. Before this, there was a mass migration of Siamese from Nakhon Si Thammarat to the northern Malay states seeking refuge following a civil war waged by Taksin of Thonburi against Nakhon ruler Nu in 1769.^[2]

^ | title = Movement and Identity Construction Amongst Kelantan's Thai Community | author = Irving Johnson | publisher = Harvard University | via = University of Münster | access-date = 21 March 2019 | page = 2 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190321025651/https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ethnologie/South_Thai/working_paper/Johnson_Kelantan.pdf | archive-date = 21 March 2019 | url-status = dead
^ Siri Neng Beh (2010). "Masyarakat Malaysia Keturunan Siam". Report on the Roundtable Discussion on the Rights of Ethnic Minorities and Marginalised Communities in Malaysia (in Malay). Human Rights Commission of Malaysia. pp. 36–42. ISBN 978-983-2523-64-2.