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Etymology of Malaysia
The word Melayu is thought to derive from the Sanskrit term Malaiur
or Malayadvipa which can be translated as "land of mountains", the word
used by ancient Indian traders when referring to the Malay Peninsula.
Other theories propose it originates from the Tamil word "Malai",
meaning mountain.The term was later used as the name of the Melayu
Kingdom, which existed between the 7th and the 13th centuries on
Sumatra.
Following his 1826 expedition in Oceania, French navigator Jules
Dumont d'Urville invented the terms Malaysia, Micronesia and Melanesia,
distinguishing these Pacific cultures and island groups from the already
existing term Polynesia. In 1831, he proposed these terms to The
Société de Géographie. Dumont d'Urville described Malaysia as "an area
commonly known as the East Indies". In 1850, the English ethnologist
George Samuel Windsor Earl, writing in the Journal of the Indian
Archipelago and Eastern Asia, proposed naming the islands of Southeast
Asia as Melayunesia or Indunesia, favouring the former.
In 1957, the Federation of Malaya was declared as an independent
federation of the Malay states on the Malay Peninsula. The name
"Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the existing states of the
Federation of Malaya, plus Singapore, North Borneo and Sarawak formed a
new federation, with "si" being added to Malaya in honour of the three
joining states. Prior to that, the name itself had been used to refer to
the whole Malay Archipelago. Politicians in the Philippines once
contemplated naming their state "Malaysia", but in 1963 Malaysia adopted
the name first. At the time of the 1963 federation, other names were
considered: among them was Langkasuka, after the historic kingdom
located at the upper section of the Malay Peninsula in the first
millennium of the common era.
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