The Malays of Comoros, numbering approximately 1,100 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a community descended from Malayo-Polynesian seafarers, recently traced to Borneo's Banjar people, who reached Comoros as early as the 5th or 6th century CE in the same wave that settled Madagascar, later mixing with Arab, Persian, and African populations They are an Indigenous people, with Malay as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Malay people cluster of the Malay Peoples. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Malay (individual language) is their primary language.