Temoq people

The Temoq people that are officially recognized are known to settle in two kampungs; on the eastern side of Tasik Bera and on the southern side of Tasik Chini, in between the settlements of the Jakun people and the Semelai people.

The dynamics of the Temoq population are as the following:-

Due to their small population, they have been declared extinct several times by the government by simply absorbing them into other neighbouring Orang Asli groups such as the Jakun people in 1974, 1980 and 1996, and with the Semelai people in 2010 for census and administrative purposes.{{cite book|author=Kirk Endicott|title=Malaysia's Original People: Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli|year=2015|publisher=NUS Press|isbn=978-99-716-9861-4}}

There are two versions on the origins of the Temoq people:-{{cite web|url=https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0084530/srigumum/doc/tasikbera.html |title=The Tasik Bera Connection: Tales of Two Lakes |author=Peter A. van der Helm |publisher=Sri Gumum |access-date=2017-01-11}}

• The Jakun narrative identifies the Temoq people were once part of the Jakun people.
• The Semelai narrative are slightly different from the Jakun's version, but the Semelai people (who practices circumcision) uses the Semaq Beri people and Temoq people as an alternative reference to Orang Asli unlike the Jakun people who do not. The Semelai people regard the Temoq people as the original inhabitants of Tasik Bera.{{cite book|author=Nicole Kruspe|title=A Grammar of Semelai|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=05-218-1497-9}}

The language of the Temoq and Semelai people are of the Austroasiatic languages family, which is different from the Malayic languages of the Austronesian languages family.{{cite web|url=http://www.coac.org.my/codenavia/portals/coacv2/code/main/main_art.php?parentID=11400226426398&artID=11397894520274 |title=Orang Asli and the Bumiputera Policy |author=Colin Nicholas |publisher=Centre For Orang Asli Concerns |access-date=2017-01-11 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209191848/http://www.coac.org.my/codenavia/portals/coacv2/code/main/main_art.php?parentID=11400226426398&artID=11397894520274 |archive-date=2012-02-09 }} Generally Malay language is frequently used along with Semelai language among the western Temoq people, while Jakun language with the eastern Temoq people although they still know Temoq language.{{cite book|title=Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 4|year=1949|publisher=Raffles Museum and Library|page=80}}

The Temoq people practice ownership of properties at the individual level. Their main sources of income include agriculture, fishing and hunting.{{cite web|url=http://www.e-mjm.org/1991/v46n3/Socioeconomic_aborigines.pdf |title=Socioeconomic, social behaviour and dietary patterns among Malaysian aborigines and rural native Malays |author=Osman Ali, Zarina Shamsuddin & B.A.K. Khalid|publisher=Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Medical Journal of Malaysia Vol. 46 No. 3 |date=September 1991 |access-date=2018-01-19}}

{{reflist}}

{{Portal|Malaysia}}

{{Orang Asli}}

{{Ethnic groups in Malaysia}}

{{Authority control}}

Category:Indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia

Category:Ethnic groups in Malaysia

Category:Orang Asli

{{Malaysia-stub}}