Orang Asli refers to the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia. The Orang Asli, together with the Malays and indigenous peoples of Sabah and Sarawak, form the category of Malaysians known as bumiputera ('sons of the soil') who make up 65.1 per cent of the population; the rest is of Chinese or Indian descent (www.statistics.gov.my/English/pressdemo.htm). The Orang Asli comprise 0.5 per cent of the population (Nicholas 2000:3) The Orang Asli population in Peninsular Malaysia can be divided into three main ethnic groups which are the Negrito's, Senoi's and Proto-Malay's. Each group can be further classified into sub-groups or tribes. The Negrito group has six tribes including the Kensiu, Kintak, Lanoh, Jahai, Mandiq and Batiq while the Senoi people include the Temiar, Semai, Semoq Beri, Jahut, Mah Meri, and Che Wong and the Proto-Malays include the Temuan, Semelai, Jakun, Kanaq, Kuala and Seletar. This study specifically focuses on the Orang Asli of the Temuan tribe from the Proto-Malay ethinic group, in particular, the Temuan community, currently residing in Bukit Lanjan Desa Temuan, Kuala Lumpur. Orang Asli land is coveted by powerful interests: for conversion into oil palm or rubber plantations, golf courses, hydroelectric power installations, etc. The Bukit Lanjan area, used to be the dwelling of this community and was acquired by the government to make way for development mainly commercial, residential projects as well as the Damansara-Puchong highwayin Selangor, Peninsular Malaya. Works on the project commenced in 1999 and 147 Orang Asli families of the Temuan were displaced and had to be moved into a nearby longhouse and later relocated to an Orang Asli reserved area called Desa Temuan. Whether the community in this new economic and social world they now find themselves in are maintaining their language is the focus of this presentation