Malays

Malay
Melayuꤷꥁꤼ
ملايو

Tunku Abdul Rahman Hatta Rajasa Hamzah Haz Hang Tuah Hassanal Bolkiah Parameswara Titi Kamal Mahathir Mohamad P. Ramlee Saloma Tantowi Yahya Mahmud Badaruddin II
Total population
c. 27.8 million
Regions with significant populations
Majority populations
Indonesia	± 11,500,000 (2010 estimate)[1][note 1]
Brunei	261,902 (2010 estimate)[2]
Malaysia	14,749,378(2010 estimate)[dubious – discuss][3][note 2]
Thailand	3,354,475 (2010 estimate)[5][6]
653,449 (2010 estimate)[7][8]
Languages
Malay, Indonesian, Thai, Filipino, English
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Minangkabau, Cham, Cocos Malay

The Malays (Malay-Indonesian: Melayu; Filipino: Malayo; Rejang: ꤷꥁꤼ; Jawi: ملايو) are an Austronesian ethnic group in Southeast Asia. They mainly live in the Maritime Southeast Asia region (especially within the Malay Archipelago; consist of Indonesian Archipelago and Philippines archipelago), such as Sumatra, Riau Islands, Singapore, Kalimantan^{[note 3]} (including Brunei), southern Thailand, and southern Philippines.

1. ↑ "Hasil Sensus Penduduk 2010 Data Agregat per Provinsi" (PDF) (in Indonesian). Badan Pusat Statistika. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-13. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
2. ↑ "CIA – The World Factbook – Brunei". Archived from the original on 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
3. ↑ "EPU – Population by sex, ethnic group and age, Malaysia,2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
4. ↑ Timothy P. Barnard, ed. (2003). Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across Boundaries. Singapore University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-9971692797.
5. ↑ CIA – World Factbook – Thailand
6. ↑ World Directory of Minorities – Malays
7. ↑ CIA – World Factbook – Singapore
8. ↑ Singapore: Population Size and Growth