Oghang Pahang, Ong Pahang, Om Paha أورڠ ڤهڠ | |
|---|---|
 Pahang noblemen playing draughts, 1900. | |
| Total population | |
| 1.1 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Malaysia (Pahang) | |
| Languages | |
| Pahang Malay, Malaysian | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Kelantanese Malays and Terengganuan Malays |
Pahang Malays (Malaysian: Melayu Pahang, Pahang Malay: Oghang Pahang, Jawi: أورڠ ڤهڠ) are a sub-group of Malay people native to the state of Pahang, in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. With population of approximately 1.08 million people, they constitutes 70% of Pahang state's population, making them the dominant ethnic group in the state.[1] Their language, Pahang Malay is one of many Malayan languages spoken in the region that belong to the Malayo-Polynesian group of Austronesian family.[2]
Although their history goes back more than one millennium, the community came to prominence when the old Pahang Sultanate was established in 1470. The sultanate was merged with Johor in 1623, but later revived in 1881 and incorporated as protectorate of the British Empire. In 1948, it formed Federation of Malaya together with other Malay Sultanates in the peninsula, that later reconstituted as Malaysia.
The Pahang Malays, along with Terengganuan Malays and Kelantanese Malays (and sometimes Thai Malays and the Malays of Anambas islands and Natuna islands in Indonesia) are collectively referred to as the Orang Pantai Timur (People of the East Coast) due to their closely related history, cultures and languages.[3]
- ^ "Penduduk mengikut jantina, kumpulan etnik dan umur, Malaysia, 2010" (PDF). Economic Planning Unit. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
- ^ Collins 1989, p. 248
- ^ Collins 1989, pp. 253–254