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Tetum cottage in Dato Rua [].. The Tetum, also known as Tetun or Belu in Indonesia, are an ethnic group that are the indigenous inhabitants of the island of Timor. [2] [3] [4] This ethnic group inhabits the Belu Regency in Indonesia and most of East Timor.
The Abui are an indigenous ethnic group (also known as Barawahing, Barue or Namatalaki) residing on Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. [2] [3] Abui people are spread across the districts of South Alor, East Alor, and Northwest Alor in Alor Regency. [2]
Etymologically, Nusa Tenggara means "Southeast Islands" from the words of nusa which means 'island' from Old Javanese language and tenggara means 'southeast'. The main Lesser Sunda Islands are, from west to east: Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba, Savu, Rote, Timor, Atauro, Alor archipelago, Barat Daya Islands, and Tanimbar Islands.
The Ridge Tool Company is an American manufacturing company that makes and distributes tools under the Ridgid brand name. The company was founded in 1923 in North Ridgeville, Ohio . [ 1 ] In 1943, it relocated to its current location in Elyria, Ohio , and in 1966, it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Emerson Electric .
The ethnonym of Bajo people is an endonym which referring to their native origin in the Bajo Island of Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara).The term later adopted in the southern Sulawesi language of Bugis as ᨅᨍᨚ, which literally means "[the] wood", referring to the material for making boats that are often used by the Bajo ethnic group to travel the sea across the Flores Sea region.
More than 90% of the Manggarai people are Catholics; the eastern Manggarai in the region of Borong are Catholics. [10] Some living in the coastal west profess Sunnism (their number is approximately 33,898 people), the spread of Islam on the island of Flores most likely through trading sea-route.
Sumba (Petjo: Soemba-eiland; Indonesian: pulau Sumba), natively also spelt as Humba, Hubba, Suba, or Zuba (in Sumba languages) is an Indonesian island (part of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago group) located in the Eastern Indonesia and administratively part of the East Nusa Tenggara provincial territory.
Based on statistical data reported by the Central Agency on Statistics in 2009, it is the native language of more than 730,000 people in the province of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. [ 2 ] Outside Flores, there was once a small minority of Manggarai-speaking people in the village of Manggarai located in the eastern part of Jakarta, the capital ...