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.[1] 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 [2]. A section of these Scythianised Kambojas is believed to have reached Tibetanplateau where they mixed with the locals; as a result some Tibetans are still called Kambojas [3]. 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 [4].
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