Thai Malays
ไทยเชื้อสายมลายู
Orang/Oghe Melayu Thai
ملايو تاي

Ethnic Malay boys in Songkhla.
Total population
1.9 million (2006 estimate)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Thailand
Languages
Patani Malay, Thai, Kedahan Malay, Kelantanese Malay
Religion
Sunni Islam, Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
Kelantanese Malay, Kedahan Malay, Burmese Malays, Malays

Thai Malays (Malay: Melayu Thai, Thai: ไทยเชื้อสายมลายู, Yawi: ملايو تاي) is a term used to refer to ethnic Malays in Thailand. Thailand hosts the third largest ethnic Malay population after Malaysia and Indonesia, and most Malays are concentrated in the Southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala, Songkhla and Satun.

Ethnic Malays in Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala and Songkhla due in part to cultural differences from the Thai people as well as past experiences of forced attempts to assimilate them into Thai mainstream culture after the eventual annexation of Pattani Kingdom by the Sukhothai Kingdom.^[2] On the other hand, ethnic Malays in Satun are less inclined towards separatism.^[3] Ethnic Malays in Satun are more proficient in Thai as compared to the Malays from the other states, and their dialect have strong affinities to those of Perlis.^[4]

People of mixed Thai and Malay ancestry are known as Samsam,^[5] which forms the bulk of Satun's population but also a significant minority in Phatthalung,^[6][7][8] Trang, Krabi, Phang Nga and Songkhla as well as in the Malaysian states of Kedah, Perak and Perlis. Samsams are generally adherents of Islam but culturally Thai, although Malay influences are co-dominant.^[9] Phuket^[10][11] and Ranong,^[12] home to a sizeable Muslim population, also has many people who are of Malay descent.^[13] A sizeable community also exists in Bangkok itself, having descended from migrants or prisoners who were relocated from the South from the 13th century onwards.^[14]

See also[link]

• Mahsuri
• Islam in Thailand
• South Thailand insurgency
• Malaysian Siamese

References[link]

1. ^ http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+th0052)
2. ^ William M. Carpenter, James R. Lilley, David G. Wiencek, Henry Stephen Albinski. Asian Security Handbook: An Assessment of Political-Security Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 240–6. ISBN 1-56324-813-1. 
3. ^ Moshe Yegar. Between Integration and Secession: The Muslim Communities of the Southern Philippines, Southern Thailand and Western Burma/Myanmar. Lexington Books. pp. 79–80. ISBN 0-7391-0356-3. 
4. ^ Thomas M. Fraser. Rusembilan: A Malay Fishing Village in Southern Thailand. Cornell University Press. pp. 88. 
5. ^ Krasūand Sētthakān (1930). Siam: Nature and Industry. Bangkok Times Press, Ltd. pp. 100. 
6. ^ Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1834). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society. pp. 167. 
7. ^ Institute of South East Asian Studies (1976). The South East Asian Review. The Institute of South East Asian Studies. pp. 15. 
8. ^ Nelson Annandale, Herbert C. Robinson (1903). Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results. Longmans, Green & Co.. pp. 30. 
9. ^ Andrew Turton. Civility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai States. Routledge. pp. 162–175. ISBN 0-7007-1173-2. 
10. ^ phuket1.xls
11. ^ Descendants of the White-Blooded Lady
12. ^ ranong1.xls
13. ^ Institute of South East Asian Studies. The South East Asian Review, 1976. The Institute of South East Asian Studies. pp. 167. 
14. ^ Mohamed Taher. Encyclopaedic Survey of Islamic Culture. Anmol Publications. pp. 228–9. ISBN 81-261-0403-1. 

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This video showing night lights over the Malay Peninsula was taken by the crew of Expedition 28 on board the International Space Station.

The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula (Malay: Semenanjung Tanah Melayu; سمننجوڠ تانه ملايو, Thai: คาบสมุทรมลายู) is a peninsula in Southeast Asia. The land mass runs approximately north-south and, at its terminus, is the southern-most point of the Asian mainland. The area contains the southernmost tip of Burma, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and Southern Thailand.

The Titiwangsa Mountains are part of the Tenasserim Hills system, and form the backbone of the Peninsula. They form the southernmost section of the central cordillera which runs from Tibet through the Kra Isthmus (the Peninsula's narrowest point) into the Malay peninsula.^[1] The Strait of Malacca separates the Malay Peninsula from the Indonesian island of Sumatra while the south coast is separated from the island of Singapore by the Straits of Johor.

The Malay term Tanah Melayu (literally: 'The Malay Land') is generally used by the Malays and occasionally used in political discourse to describe uniting all ethnic Malay people on the peninsula under one Malay nation, although this ambition was largely realised with the creation of Malaysia.^{[citation needed]}

See also[link]

• Malay archipelago

References[link]

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