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The Mentawai tribe is documented to have migrated from Nias – a northern island – to the Mentawai islands, living in an isolated life for centuries until they encountered the Dutch in 1621. The ancestors of the indigenous Mentawai people are believed to have first migrated to the region somewhere between 2000 and 500 BCE. [1]
Mentawai language, their Austronesian language Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mentawai .
Pages in category "Native American history of Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The history of Georgia in the United States of America spans pre-Columbian time to the present-day U.S. state of Georgia. The area was inhabited by Native American tribes for thousands of years. A modest Spanish presence was established in the late 16th century, mostly centered on Catholic missions. The Spanish had largely withdrawn from the ...
According to Ethnologue, Mentawai dialects include: Silabu, Sipura – Simalegi, Sakalagan, Saumanganja – North Siberut, South Siberut – Taikaku – Pagai. [1] Syamsir Arifin, et al. (1992) list twelve dialects of Mentawai:
Most historians and scholars of Georgia as well as anthropologists, archaeologists, and linguists tend to agree that the ancestors of modern Georgians inhabited the southern Caucasus and northern Anatolia since the Neolithic period. [40] Scholars usually refer to them as Proto-Kartvelian (Proto-Georgians such as Colchians and Iberians) tribes. [41]
Films set in Georgia (U.S. state) by city (2 C) Pages in category "Films set in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 160 pages are in this category, out of 160 total.
Kloss's gibbon (Hylobates klossii), also known as the Mentawai gibbon, the bilou or dwarf siamang, is an endangered primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae. It is identifiable in that it is all black, [ 4 ] resembling the siamang with its black fur , but is considerably smaller and lacks the siamang's distinctive throat pouch.