Original sentence: According to Philippine government statistics and current census data, some 95.5% of the population is ethnically Malay, which is popularly defined as descendants of immigrants from the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia, who arrived long before the Christian era.However, Filipinos are more accurately Austronesian who came to the Philippines from southern China via Taiwan
Edited sentence: According to Philippine government statistics and current census data, some 95.5% of the population is ethnically Malay, descendants of immigrants from the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia, who arrived long before the Christian era