The Semai (also known as Mai Semai or Sengoi Hik[2]) are a semi-sedentary ethnic group living in the center of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia, known especially for their nonviolence.[3] This characterization was made by Robert Knox Dentan, an anthropologist who studied the Semai in the 1960s, though he offered a more nuanced view after subsequent fieldwork.[4] They speak Semai, an Austroasiatic language closely related to Temiar, spoken by Temiars nearby. The Semai are bordered by the Temiars to the north and the Jah Hut to the South.[5] The Semai belong to the Senoi group, and are one of the largest indigenous ethnic group in the Peninsula and the largest of the Senoi group. Most Semai subsist by cultivating grain crops, hunting, and fishing.
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The Semai (also known as Mai Semai or Sengoi Hik) are a semi-sedentary ethnic group living in the center of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia, known...
Semai (engrok Semai) is a Austroasiatic language of western Malaysia spoken by about 60,438 Semaipeople. It is one of the few Aslian languages which are...
Semai may refer to: SemaipeopleSemai language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Semai. If an internal link led you here...
namely, the Cheq Wong people, the Mah Meri people, the Jah Hut people, the Semaq Beri people, the Semaipeople and the Temiar people. They are closely related...
Press. ISBN 978-144-2661-71-4. Dentan, Robert Knox (1968). The Semai: A Nonviolent People Of Malaya. Case studies in cultural anthropology. Archived from...
comparison to the Semaipeople and Jakun people) and the most widespread of the Orang Asli ethnic groups. Outwardly, the Temuan people; like the other Proto-Malays...
and Mah Meri people) are mainly engaged in fishing and seafood harvesting. Others, including Temuan people, Jakun people and Semaipeople, are constantly...
is also performed by the Temiar people as part of their folk beliefs. The changes in the population of the Temiar people are as the following:- Nasi serempad...
include Kensiu, Kintaq, Jahai, Minriq, Batek, Cheq Wong, Lanoh, Temiar, Semai, Jah Hut, Mah Meri, Semaq Beri, Semelai and Temoq. Aslian languages originally...
the local folk belief that existed in the indigenous populations (see Semaipeople) has added to the strength of the many Malaysian movements in environmentalism...
structural issues due to a hierarchical regional market which could resign Semaipeople to the bottom or cause increasing dependence on government for welfare...
Jah Hut people are one of the Orang Asli tribes living in Pahang, Malaysia. As of 2000, the population of the Jah Hut people are 2,442 and by 2005, it...
hâne. Ağır semais are slow vocal pieces which are composed in the "usuls of Aksak Semâî (10 8), Ağır Aksak Semâî (10 4) or Ağır Sengin Semâî (6 2)", and...
of three to four sections, in 10/8 metre, or usul aksak semai (broken semai in Turkish). Semai is one of the most important forms in Ottoman Turkish Sufi...
The Jakun people are the largest sub-group in the Proto-Malay division, and the second-largest Orang Asli sub-group overall, after the Semai. In the past...
centuries, many indigenous peoples of the peninsular maintained themselves as stateless societies. One of these groups is the Semaipeople, an acephalous society...
in 1951. The book of Luke was revised and published as a diglot with the Semai language (Ethnologue: sea) and Bahasa Malaysia text shown side-by-side in...
groups: Negrito, Senoi, and Malayic, further divided into 18 subgroups. The Semai language is used in education. Thai is also spoken in northern parts of...
Islands near the Indonesian half of New Guinea island. Asia Island Karas Semai Ayu Islands Palau Ayu Palau Reni Raja Ampat Islands Batanta Boo Islands...
lyrics talked of the bravery of the nation. In his final release, entitled Semai ("Sky" in Tigrinya), Abraham collaborates with several Eritrean musicians...
Dobe Ju/hoansi. Thomas Learning/Wadsworth. Robert K. Dentan, The Semai: A Nonviolent People of Malaya. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979 Greg Urban...
Also note that many respondents acknowledged multiple ancestries. These people were added to the "multiple origin" total for each origin listed. These...
as Pelto's on the Sami, Altschuler's on the Cayapa, or Dentan's on the Semai. Similarly, many ancient and medieval texts argue the opposite: sex is seen...
Orang Asli (aborigines). The name Senoi Praaq means war people or those who fight in the Semai language. Roy Davis Linville Jumper considered them one...
concept of aggression seems to be entirely absent, e.g. the Chewong and Semai of the Malay peninsula. Bobbi S. Low has observed correlation between warfare...
few villages) during his reign and all these palayams were under Dindigul Semai, with Dindigul as the capital. These palayams wanted to be independent and...
closest language but now extinct), Semnam, Temiar and Semai, all spoken in the same state. Lanoh people Lanoh language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
and one mortar platoon. The Senoi Praaq means War People in the language of the Semai Indigenous people of Peninsula Malaysia. The formation was moved to...
Malaysia shortly after World War II, and Wah Draman, an Orang Asli woman of Semai tribe from Kuala Woh located at the foot of the Cameron Highlands. His father...
the total population. Malaysia's population comprises many ethnic groups. People of Austronesian origin make up the majority of the population, and are known...
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