Austronesians, Austronesian people or Austronesian-speaking people are various populations in Asia, Oceania and Africa that speak languages of the Austronesian family. They include Taiwanese aborigines; the majority of ethnic groups in the Philippines, Malaysia, East Timor, Indonesia, Brunei, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Madagascar, Micronesia, and Polynesia, as well as the Malay people of Singapore, the Polynesian peoples of New Zealand and Hawaii, and the non-Papuan people of Melanesia. They are also found in the regions of the Pattani in Thailand, the Cham areas in Vietnam and Cambodia, and the Hainan region of China, parts of Sri Lanka, southern Myanmar, southern tip of South Africa, Suriname and some of the Andaman Islands. The people of the Maldives also possess traces of Austronesian genes via gene flow from the Malay Archipelago. The territories populated by Austronesian-speaking peoples are known collectively as Austronesia. Most Austronesians bear similar features such as the light to brown skin with straight, curly or wavy hair.