The History of Malays in Borneo Island Based On Linguistic Facts

Within the scope of this study is focus survey data to prove that her land also is beginning to
gain a foothold on earth Malay Malay nature. Theory two waves of migration of the Malays,
the Malays and the Malay Proto Deutro nearly 200-year-old (19th century). In a note Wan
Hashim (1995: 28-29), he questioned the two waves of migration, adding that the Malays do
not migrate instead of the Malay world is the homeland of the Malays. According to him, the
ancestors of the Malay people have inhabited the Malay world about 35,000 years before
Christ again. The statement proposed by Wan Hashim (1995) relating to the migration of two
waves of Malays that there is truth, but if you say that 35, 000 years BC (Before Christ)
existing ancestors of the Malays in absolute terms in the Malay world turned out to require an
interpretation that other . According to Reid (2005), the earliest inhabitants of the Malay
world or the name given by Reid as the Sunda Shelf is a man named Australo-Malanesia.
Actually, long before Wan Hashim related hypothesis suggests the homeland of the Malays
(Austronesian) other relevant existing opinion. On end of the 19th century (1880), N.H.
Keane (see Mahoney 1996), an anthropologist argues that the mixing of the two great nations,
who was then residing in Indo-China, the Mongol peoples of the Caucasus and eventually
reduce the Malays. Keane's approach based on race is indeed difficult to be accepted. Nine
years after Keane expressed his hypothesis, now it's the turn Hendrick Kern (1889) (see
Mahoney 1996), the original location of the Malays or the Austronesian. He uses 30 lexical
translated into 100 languages spread in the distribution area ratio Austronesia. Based
language translations of those languages, Kern reached the conclusion that the original land
of the Malays or Austronesian is the East coast of Indo-China (Champa, Cochin-China and
Cambodia ). Furthermore, Kern argues that Austronesian peoples who lived on the plains of
Africa were driven out by other people who live in the area and forced the Austronesian
peoples migrated to the Peninsula Melayu. Nation then continue to migrate to Sumatra and
Kalimantan. Hipotesis is held by most linguists Malaysia to this day. Asmah (1983) argues
Malay Peninsula is the center spread of the Malay language Melayu. Language then spreads
Sematera, Borneo and the Philippines. Whereas in other youth study (1993), he put forward
the hypothesis that quite brave, that is to say the West is the location of the initial placement
of the Malays and Iban. Due to the influence of Islam, it forced all Iban people living in the
area to migrate to Borneo. This hypothesis raises many questions, including Islam which
began to spread throughout Southeast Asia in the 13th century and the presence of this
religion was not an urgent demand for the Iban to leave the Peninsula. The other question is if
the Iban migrated to Borneo they would have been great sailors, capable of building great
ships for sailing, and of course they would not only have been living in Borneo but probably
all over the rest of Asia. is the leading Malay and Iban people remain closed in West
Kalimantan and Sarawak. In addition, other issues can be addressed here is the existence of
Malay and Iban, despite close ties but both languages are different, and this relationship is the
relationship of language rather than a dialect. Thus, the separation period of about 800 years
if we consider Islam as a result of the migration of Iban people to Borneo is not the ideal time
for a language to reach its absolute language status. The hypothesis further relates
Austronesian homeland of the Malays has been expressed by Dyen (1965). Dyen said that the
Malays Austronesian homeland is in the New Hebrides and New Britain or in other studies in
the area, he said the Indonesian team ur-West New Guinea or more specifically in Bismack
Islands (see Bellwood 1985: 111). Based on some of the figures also included in the debate
on the article written by Muhammad Nur Latif as we will see the weaknesses and
peculiarities of this land. The last word can be said The whole language of this land's
discussion is so interesting to many linguistic researchers that many of the opinions of the
figures are included in this review.
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