Cocos Malays
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Cocos Malays are a community that form the predominant group of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which is now a part of Australia. Today, most of the Cocos Malay can be found in the eastern coast of Sabah, Malaysia, because of diaspora originating from the 1950s during the British colonial period.
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Total population | |
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4,000–5,000[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Malaysia ( Sabah): ~5,000[1] Australia ( Cocos (Keeling) Islands): 400 | |
Languages | |
Cocos Malay, English and Malaysian | |
Religion | |
Majority: Sunni Islam[2] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Bantenese, Betawi people, Javanese people, Malays |
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Despite that they all have assimilated into the ethnic Malay culture, they are named in reference to the Malay race, originating from different places of the Malay Archipelago such as Bali, Bima, Celebes, Madura, Sumbawa, Timor, Sumatra, Pasir-Kutai, Malacca, Penang, Batavia and Cirebon,[3] as well as South Africa and New Guinea.[4]