Cheq Wong people Cheqwong / Chewong / Che' Wong / Ceq Wong / Cewong / Si Wong / Siwong / Siwang / Beri / Chuba
A Cheq Wong man with a child in Krau Wildlife Reserve, Pahang.
Regions with significant populations
Malaysia:
Pahang
818 (2010)[1]
Languages
Cheq Wong, Malay
Religion
Animism (predominantly), Islam, Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Other Jahaic-speaking peoples, other Orang Asli Especially other Senois
Cheq Wong people are an indigenous Orang Asli people of the Senoi branch in Peninsular Malaysia. Although they have the physical appearance of the Senoi sub-group, the Cheq Wong language that they speak is closely related to the Northern Aslian languages.[2]
^Kirk Endicott (2015). Malaysia's Original People: Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli. NUS Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-99-716-9861-4.
^Signe Howell (1984). Society and Cosmos: Chewong of Peninsular Malaysia. Oxford University Press. p. 6. ISBN 01-958-2543-8.
CheqWongpeople are an indigenous Orang Asli people of the Senoi branch in Peninsular Malaysia. Although they have the physical appearance of the Senoi...
CheqWong may refer to: CheqWong language, a language of the Jahaic languages branch spoken in Malaysia CheqWongpeople, an indigenous Orang Asli people...
tribes namely, the CheqWongpeople, the Mah Meri people, the Jah Hut people, the Semaq Beri people, the Semai people and the Temiar people. They are closely...
of Orang Asli, including the Temiar people, CheqWongpeople, Jah Hut people, Semelai people, and Semaq Beri people, continue to live in or near jungles...
the Jah Hut language, Jah means "people" and Hut means "not". Diffloth (1976) reports that in the neighboring CheqWong language, there is a practice to...
outlier CheqWong, which is spoken south of the Central Aslian language Semai. The other languages apart from Tonga can be split into two divisions: Cheq Wong...
Also note that many respondents acknowledged multiple ancestries. These people were added to the "multiple origin" total for each origin listed. These...
The main ethnic groups within Malaysia are the Malay people, Han Chinese people and Tamil people, with many other ethnic groups represented in smaller...
Christopher, ed. (2010). Atlas of the World’ s Languages in Danger. Memory of Peoples (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2. Retrieved...
and Melayu Bugis people show close relationship with the people of Indonesia, evidence of their shared common ancestry with these people. However, Melayu...
are Jah Hut and CheqWong, who predominantly live in Mukim Jenderak, east of the reserve. Conclusively, there are 10 indigenous people villages within...
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