Malay Archipelago vs Malay

Malay Archipelago and Malay both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Malay Archipelago	Yes	No	No	No
Malay	Yes	Yes	No	No

Malay Archipelago (noun)	Malay (noun)
a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia	a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages
	a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago

Malay Archipelago (adjective)	Malay (adjective)
	of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the northern Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago