Explore: Semang Race

The Semang are an ethnic-minority group of the Malay Peninsula. They live in mountainous and isolated forest regions of Perak, Pahang, Kelantan and Kedah

than the modern Semang people and did not belong to the Negrito race. Recent studies have also shown genetic differences between Semang people and other

like Malaysia, where it is now interchangeable with the more acceptable Semang, although this term actually refers to a specific group. They have dark

the Onge, the Jarawa, and the Sentinelese) of the Andaman Islands, the Semang peoples (among them, the Batek people) of Peninsular Malaysia, the Maniq

such as the Andamanese (from the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean), the Semang and Batek peoples (from Malaysia), the Maniq people (from Thailand), the

Jakun Orang Kanaq Orang Laut Orang Kuala Orang Seletar Semelai Temoq Temuan Semang Batek Lanoh Jahai Kensiu Kintaq Mendriq Mintil Mos Senoi Semai Mah Meri

have closer genetic relationship to the two subgroups of the Orang Asli Semang, Jahai and Kensiu, than other Malay groups. Four of the Malay sub-ethnic

Aeta people Andamanese Ati people Batak (Philippines) Mamanwa Orang Asli Semang Batek Jahai Lanoh Mani (Mani people are closely related to Kensiu people

that they may have been some unknown short-statured race of people, similar to the Negritos, the Semang of Malaysia, or the Andaman islanders. Hill and Heuvelmans

modern humans, such as the Mbenga and Mbuti at 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in), Twa, Semang at 1.37 m (4 ft 6 in) for adult women of the Malay Peninsula, or the Andamanese