Proto Malay

Proto Malay, also known as Melayu Asli or Melayu Purba in the Malay language, is an ethnic group in Malaysia. Anthropologists traced a group of newcomers Proto Malay seafarers migrated from Yunnan to Malaysia, during the stone age period. [ [http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/malays.htm The Malays] ] According to R.O. Winsteadt, the Proto Malay has a smaller body size, they were polite and shy.

A section of the Kambysene hordes settled on north-west of India later came to be known as Kambojas and their province as Kamboja in ancient Indian traditions [The Racial History of India – 1944, p 810, Chandra Chakraberty] . A section of these Scythianised Kambojas is believed to have reached Tibetan plateau where they mixed with the locals; as a result some Tibetans are still called Kambojas [op cit, p 165, Dr C. Chakravarty.] . Through Tibet, they went further to Mekong valley where they were called Kambujas (Cambodians), now represented by the Chams, still a tall, fair, dolichocephelic people with non-mongoloid eyes, of the Mon-Khmers [op cit, p 165, Dr C. Chakravarty. ] .

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* Etymology of Kamboja
* Kambojas and Cambodia
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* Malay people
* Migration of Kambojas
* Prehistoric Malaysia