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The Pesisir language closely resembles the Minangkabau language, particularly the Pariaman dialect. [3] Lexically, it shares about 70% to 80% of its vocabulary with standard Minangkabau, while only about 20% with Batak Toba. [7] Research suggests that Pesisir and Minangkabau were once the same language but began to diverge around the 14th ...
West Nusa Tenggara (Indonesian: Nusa Tenggara Barat – NTB) is a province of Indonesia.It comprises the western portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the exception of Bali which is its own province.
The term Nusantara derives from a combined two words of Austronesian and Sanskrit origin, the word nūsa (see also nusa) meaning "island" in Old Javanese, is ultimately derived from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian word *nusa with the same meaning, [12] and the word antara is a Javanese loanword borrowed from Sanskrit अन्तरा (antarā) meaning "between" or "in the middle", [13] thus ...
Somalia has the longest coastline in Africa. [11]The Earth has approximately 620,000 kilometres (390,000 mi) of coastline. Coastal habitats, which extend to the margins of the continental shelves, make up about 7 percent of the Earth's oceans, [12] but at least 85% of commercially harvested fish depend on coastal environments during at least part of their life cycle. [13]