Semang

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Semang is one of the three groupings of Orang Asli in the Malay Peninsula. The term is used to group those Orang Asli who were perceived as to fall under the broader obsolete racial-category of 'Negrito'. The Semang identity is not traditionally recognised by them and instead the peoples labelled with it have historically identified with their individual group; Kensiu, Kintaq, Lanoh, Jahai, Mendriq and Batek. They live in mountainous and isolated forest regions of Perak, Pahang, Kelantan and Kedah of Malaysia and the southern provinces of Thailand. They have been recorded since before the 3rd century. They are ethnologically described as nomadic hunter-gatherers. The Semang are grouped together with other Orang Asli groups, a diverse grouping of several distinct hunter-gatherer populations. Historically they preferred to trade with the local population. For more than one thousand years, some of the Semang people remained in isolation while others were either subjected to slave raids or...

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