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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 Islanders Islanders in a photo by C.B. Niewenhuis. The Mentawai Islands have been administered as a regency within the West Sumatra (Sumatera Barat) province since 1999. The regency seat is Tua Pejat, on the island of Sipora. Padang, the capital of the province, lies on the Sumatran mainland opposite Siberut.
The Mentawai language is an Austronesian language, spoken by the Mentawai people of the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Dialects.
The Javanese (/ dʒ ɑː v ə ˈ n iː z /, jah-və-NEEZ, [17] / dʒ æ v-/ jav-, /-ˈ n iː s /- NEESS; [18] Javanese: ꦮꦺꦴꦁꦗꦮ, romanized: Wong Jawa (in the ngoko register), ꦠꦶꦪꦁꦗꦮꦶ, Tiyang Jawi (in the krama register); [19] Indonesian: Orang Jawa) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the central and eastern part of the Indonesian island of Java.
The term baduy is a short form derived from baduyut in the Baduy language.It is a native Sundanese term that refers to an endemic vine plant of western Java (Trichosanthes villosa), used as a herbal medicine since ancient times.
The native language of Osing people is the Osing language, it is categorized as part of the Javanese language family. Linguistically speaking, this language has been influenced heavily by its neighbour notably the Standard Javanese (mainly eastern dialects) and Balinese. [6]
The bazzar of Baweans in Surabaya, c. 1920s. The Baweans diaspora in Singapore, c. 1901. The homeland of the Bawean people is the Bawean Islands in the Java Sea. As a result of migration, nowadays the Baweans can be found in all regions across Indonesia, especially in western Indonesian region.
Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia, who speak Batak languages.