The Temiar are a Senoic group indigenous to the Malay Peninsula and one of the largest of the eighteen Orang Asli groups of Malaysia. They reside mainly in Perak, Pahang and Kelantan.

Temiar is a Central Aslian (Mon–Khmer) language spoken in Western Malaysia by the Temiar people. The Temiar are one of the most numerous Aslian-speaking peoples, numbering around 30,000 in 2017. [2]

Senoi is the largest group of Orang Asli, their share is about 54 percent of the total number of Orang Asli. The Senoi ethnic group includes 6 tribes namely, the Cheq Wong people, the Mah Meri people, the Jah Hut people, the Semaq Beri people, the …

The Temiar numbering between 14-20,000 people, are one of many groups of Orang Asli (Original People) that live in Malaysia and number less than 100,000 people, less than 1% of the population.

The Temiar are a Senoic group indigenous to the Malay peninsula and one of the largest of the nineteen Orang Asli groups of Malaysia. Many live on the fringes of the rainforest, while a small number have been urbanised.

The Temiar are a Senoic group indigenous to the Malay Peninsula and one of the largest of the eighteen Orang Asli groups of Malaysia. They reside mainly in Perak, Pahang and Kelantan. Their total population is estimated at around 40,000 to 120,000, most of which live on the fringes of the rainforest, while a small number have been urbanised.

The Semai and Temiar people call themselves Sɛnˀơơy, which means, simply, ‘people’. In Semai, the term is enough to mean ‘indigenous people’, but the Temiars say, Sɛnˀơơy sɛŋrơx, to imply the same, or ‘forest people’.

Temiar Web is a non-profit organisation raising awareness of and promoting the Temiar people, and Orang Asli groups of Malaysia and South East Asia. In this site you will find news, information and links about the Temiars and the Orang Asli.

An ethnographic sketch of the Temiar people (a Mon-Khmer-speaking population of upland northern Peninsular Malaysia) is followed by a processual, ecological and political analysis of the cognatic-descent-group based organisation of their local residential groups.

The Temiar are one of the larger component groups of the Orang Asli (Malay, "original people," i.e., Aborigines), the name currently applied to the non-Muslim tribal (or recently tribal) populations of peninsular Malaysia.