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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

ABC Wednesday-M is for Malay/Melanau.

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The Malay kampung(village).

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The view of Malay/Melanau kampung in Sibu.

My ABC-Wednesday letter 'M' is for Malay/Melanau.

Melanau is the earliest inhabitants in Sibu,Sarawak and staying at the Melanau long house at Kampung Nangka before 1953.The second ethnic group to settle in Sibu is Malay community,they settled at along banks of the Rajang river and Igan river at Kampung Datu,Kampung Hilir and Kampung Nangka.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

What a lovely village it seems to be! So green!

magiceye said...

that was very interesting..

Bradley Hsi said...

Interesting to read about Melanau and Malay. It seems tha Melanau (peiple of the river) has not been able to keep their culture identy very well and been melted into the Malay community.

Jama said...

We got lots of malay here but no kampung!

escape said...

i believe malayasians are really good in badminton.