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Malay Peninsula Eastern Slope
Malay Peninsula Eastern Slope (FEOW ecoregion 734) is a freshwater ecoregion of eastern Peninsular Malaysia drainages from Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand to Singapore, a Sundaic fauna transition zone and identified freshwater fish conservation priority.
Malay race
Malay race (bangsa Melayu): a state population category in Malaysia and Singapore, one of the Malay-Chinese-Indian-Others groups inherited from British colonial censuses, legally and administratively tied to Bumiputera status and Malay identity.
Malay styles and titles
Malay styles and titles (gelaran) are the honorific, royal, chivalry, and religious titles used in Malaysia and Brunei, from DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong to Tun, Tan Sri, Dato, and hereditary Tunku/Tengku, under DBP circular rules.
Malay trade pidgins
Malay trade pidgins, chiefly Bazaar Malay (Melayu Pasar, low Malay), are Malay-lexified contact languages with Chinese substrata used for trade across Southeast Asia; SVO, topic-prominent, now declining, with disputed pidgin-creole classification.
Malaya Lepetikha
Malaya Lepetikha (Мала Лепетиха) is a village in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, and a Scythian kurgan group on the left bank of the Lower Dnieper, excavated by Veselovsky in 1915-1916 and by Evdokimov in 1992, with 4th-century BC catacomb burials.
Malayaketu
Malayaketu is a character in the Sanskrit play Mudrarakshasa, the son of Parvataka, who after his father's death leads a coalition revolt against Chandragupta Maurya.
Malayala Manorama (മലയാള മനോരമ)
Malayala Manorama (മലയാള മനോരമ), Kottayam-based Malayalam daily founded 1888 by Kandathil Varghese Mappillai, first issued 1890, daily since 1928, suspended 1938-1947, Kerala's largest newspaper with Manorama Online and Onmanorama digital arms.
Malayalam (മലയാളം)
Malayalam (മലയാളം) is a Dravidian language of Kerala, one of India's 22 scheduled languages, closest to Tamil, granted Classical Language status in 2013, with Old Malayalam attested 800–1300 CE.
Malayalam calendar (കൊല്ലവർഷം)
The Malayalam calendar (കൊല്ലവർഷം), also called Kollavarsham or the Kollam Era, is Kerala's traditional solar calendar, counted from 825 CE and still used for festivals.
Malayalam cinema
Malayalam cinema (മലയാള സിനിമ, Mollywood), Kerala's Malayalam-language film industry, began with Vigathakumaran (1928); known for realistic, content-driven films, its biggest hit is Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra (2025).
Malayalam drama
Malayalam drama (മലയാളനാടകം) is the tradition of dramatic literature and theater in the Malayalam language of Kerala, India, tied to social reform and politics since its modern beginnings in 1882.
Malayalam Hip Hop
Malayalam hip hop, also called Malayalam rap, is the rap scene of Kerala, India, performed mainly in Malayalam, with first recordings in 1999 and mass popularity in the 2020s.
Malayalam journalism
Malayalam journalism is the newspaper and periodical press of the Malayalam language, begun in 1847 with missionary publications and reaching India's highest newspaper penetration, driven by Kerala's literacy and politics.
Malayalam literature
Malayalam literature (മലയാള സാഹിത്യം) is literature in Malayalam, Kerala's language: Pattu and Manipravalam traditions, Ezhuthachan, the 1889 novel Indulekha, modernism, Arabi-Malayalam, and classical-language status.
Malayalam novel
The Malayalam novel (ഇന്ദുലേഖ) is the tradition of novel-length fiction in Malayalam, the language of Kerala, beginning with O. Chandumenon's Indulekha in 1889 and later spanning social realism, modernism, and Arabi-Malayalam writing.
Malayalam Sahitya Charitram
Malayalam Sahitya Charitram is the conventional Malayalam title for works of literary history, from P. Govinda Pillai's first language history of 1881 to genre and community histories.
Malayalam script (മലയാളലിപി)
The Malayalam script (മലയാളലിപി) is a South Indian abugida used to write the Malayalam language of Kerala and Sanskrit texts there, derived from the Grantha script.
Malayalam short story
The Malayalam short story, or cherukatha, is a prose fiction genre in the Malayalam language of Kerala, generally traced to the 1891 publication of Vasanavikriti.
Malayalam translation tradition
The Malayalam translation tradition (വിവർത്തനം, vivarthanam) is the centuries-old practice of rendering texts into and out of Malayalam, reaching from fifteenth-century stage manuals to today's publishing boom.
Malayalam Wikipedia (മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ)
Malayalam Wikipedia (മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ) is the Malayalam-language edition of Wikipedia, started in December 2002 and holding about 86,000 articles by 2025, maintained by volunteers in Kerala.
Malayalee from India (മലയാളി ഫ്രം ഇന്ത്യ)
Malayalee from India (മലയാളി ഫ്രം ഇന്ത്യ) is a 2024 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by Dijo Jose Antony, starring Nivin Pauly as Aalparambil Gopi, released 1 May 2024, 158 minutes, Magic Frames, SonyLIV streaming.
Malayan campaign and fall of Singapore
The Malayan campaign and fall of Singapore was Japan's conquest of British Malaya, launched on 8 December 1941 and ending with Lieutenant General Percival's surrender of Singapore on 15 February 1942.
Malayan Communist Party
The Malayan Communist Party (Parti Komunis Malaya) was a communist party founded in British Malaya in 1930 under the Comintern, leading anti-Japanese resistance and an insurrection from 1948.
Malayan Declaration of Independence
The Malayan Declaration of Independence (Malay: Pemasyhuran Kemerdekaan) is the proclamation read by Tunku Abdul Rahman at Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, on 31 August 1957, ending British rule.
Malayan Democratic Union
The Malayan Democratic Union (MDU) was a multiracial party of English-educated professionals founded in Singapore in December 1945, the first local political party in the territory, campaigning for self-government.
Malayan Emergency
Malayan Emergency (1948–1960), also called the Communist Insurgency in Malaya: guerrilla war between the Malayan Communist Party's MNLA and British Commonwealth forces, ending with MCP defeat after the Briggs Plan resettlement of about 500,000 Chinese squatters.
Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army
The Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) was a guerrilla force formed in January 1942 by the Malayan Communist Party to resist the Japanese occupation of Malaya.
Malayan tapir
Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus, Asian tapir), the only living Asian tapir, an Endangered perissodactyl of Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, and Sumatra with about 2,500 wild individuals, threatened by habitat loss, snares, and roadkill.
Malayan tiger
Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni), Harimau Malaya, a critically endangered tiger subspecies endemic to Peninsular Malaysia; fewer than 150 remain after the 2016–2020 National Tiger Survey, threatened by Vietnamese poaching syndicates, prey depletion, and habitat loss.
Malayan Union
Malayan Union: British crown colony uniting the Malay States, Penang and Malacca, in force 1 April 1946 to 1 February 1948; Malay opposition founded UMNO and produced the Federation of Malaya.