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Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .
From a stock of Mongolian, Chinese, Korean, and perhaps also Malay settlers, the country has had several thousand years to develop a solidly unified ethnicity.
The native Timorese (and most Indonesians) are descendents of Malay people who emigrated from China about 4,500 years ago.
They faced repeated assault and siege from neighboring Malay forces, and malaria was a constant scourge.
A Federation of Malay States — Selangor, Perak, Negeri Sembilan, and Pahang — was proclaimed in 1896 to coordinate an economic and administrative organization.