Australoid

The Australoid race is a broad racial classification used to refer to people indigenous to Southeast Asia, South Asia, Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and historically parts of East Asia. The concept originated with a typological method of racial classification. They were described as having dark skin with wavy hair, in the case of the Veddoid race of South Asia and Aboriginal Australians, or hair ranging from straight to kinky in the case of the Melanesian group.

According to this typology, Australoid peoples often mixed with other races (mostly Caucasoid and Mongoloid) range throughout Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, East Timor, Brunei, Sri Lanka, the Indian subcontinent, Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and historically in Japan.