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The Eastern Malay (Melayu Timur) is an ethnic group that settled around the Malacca Strait. The known areas with significant population of this ethnic group are Jambi (Tanjung Jabung Timur, Tanjung Jabung Barat) and Riau (Indragiri Hilir), Indonesia. The people of this ethnic also dwell and spread out to neighboring countires such as Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. The people believe that their ancestor were Iranun people who came from Mindanao, Philippines about hundreds years ago. That is why they call theirselves as Eastern Malay, due to their ancestor came from the East (Philippines). But it obvious, that the language they use today is so much similar with other Malaccan (Johor-Riau) Malay Language rather than to Iranun, even it can be said that actually the language is a dialect of Johor-Riau Malay. It reveals that their Iranun ancestor had assimilated with the local Malaccan Malay people.
The language shown here is not the version that casually used by the ethnic, but it is a purificated version. It means that the language uses fewer loanwords. So it might be that some word sounds unfamiliar to even the native speaker of it.
The script used to write the text here is based on Rencong Script. The Rencong Script is the oldest and maybe the only one native writing system from Malay world. The earlier scripts, Pallava (from India) and Kawi (from Java) are not native to Malay world as well as the successor scipts, Jawi (from Arab) and Latin (from Europe). Rencong script characters those used here are mostly based on Kerinci script. But for some vowel and consonant signs, they were also influenced by Rejang script. The writing shown here might be inaccurate, but the author tries his best in making of the writing.