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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.
There are more than 600 ethnic groups [1] in the multicultural Indonesian archipelago, making it one of the most diverse countries in the world. The vast majority of these belong to the Austronesian peoples, concentrated in western and central Indonesia (), with a sizable minority are Melanesian peoples concentrated in eastern Indonesia ().
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]
Metawai Festival or Mentawai Charm Festival (Indonesian: Festival Pesona Mentawai) is a traditional festival/carnival held annually since 2016 at Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra in Indonesia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The festival aims to promote national and international tourism to the Mentawai Islands Regency , arranged by the Indonesian Ministry ...
The Mentawai language is an Austronesian language, ... Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaa. Adriani, N. (1928).
A once-proud franchise with three Super Bowl wins with three different starting quarterbacks in 1982, 1987 and 1991 fell into the depths of despair after much-maligned owner Dan Snyder bought it ...
The language in the Ngawi city area is not only Javanese, but consists of various languages in Indonesia including Sundanese language, Madura language, Osing language dan Tengger language. The Surabaya Javanese language and the Arekan dialect also have speakers in this district for those who migrate or immigrants who live in the Ngawi District.