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An Uma, the traditional communal house of the Mentawai A Mentawai woman, 2017 Man with drum in the Mentawai Islands.. The Mentawai live in the traditional dwelling called the Uma which is a longhouse and is made by weaving bamboo strips together to make walls and thatching the roofs with grass, the floor is raised on stilts and is made of wood planks.
Mentawai language, their Austronesian language Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mentawai .
Ever since then, the Mentawai Islands have been well on the radar of surf travellers around the world. At the West of Sumatra, the Mentawai Islands have the most consistent surf breaks in Indonesia making it one of the preferred choices for serious surfers. The tropical waters surrounding the islands offer year-round waves up to 15 ft (4.5 m).
Fonologi Bahasa Mentawai [Mentawai Language Phonology] (PDF) (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaa. Adriani, N. (1928). "Spraakkunstige Schets van de Taal der Mĕntawai-Eilanden" [Grammar Sketch of the Language of the Mĕntawai Islands].
Bahasa Indonesia; Lietuvių ... Pages in category "Mentawai Islands Regency" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
Sipora (Indonesian: Sipora or sometimes spelled Sipura) located off Sumatra in the West Sumatra Province of Indonesia, is the second-smallest and most developed of the four Mentawai Islands at only 620.73 km 2. It had a population of 17,557 at the 2010 Census [2] and 21,901 at the 2020 Census; [3] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 23,228 ...
The island is part of the Mentawai islands off the west coast of Sumatra. The structures are influenced by the Acehnese style, built on a much larger scale. They were formerly used as uma longhouses by the Sakuddei tribe before they were forced to abandon their traditional way of life through government intervention in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Mentawai Islands rain forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in Indonesia. It covers the Mentawai Islands , an archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra . The islands have been separated from Sumatra since the mid-Pleistocene period, and their geographic isolation allowed the evolution of several endemic ...