Mentawai Uma

	Mentawai Uma Mentawai may refer to: * Mentawai Islands, Indonesia Mentawai Strait Mentawai people, ethnic group of Indonesia Mentawai language The Mentawai language is an Austronesian language, spoken by the Mentawai people of the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Dialects According to ''Ethnologue'', Mentawai dialects include: Silabu, Sipura – Simalegi, Sakalagan, Sa ..., their Austronesian language {{dab Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mentawai Islands Mentawai may refer to: * Mentawai Islands, Indonesia Mentawai Strait Mentawai people, ethnic group of Indonesia Mentawai language, their Austronesian language {{dab Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mentawai Strait Mentawai Strait separates the island of Sumatra from the small archipelago of the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia. Its waters belong to the Indian Ocean and both banks are part of the province of West Sumatra. The strait is about 450 km long and its width varies between 100 and 150 km. The main city on the edge of the strait is the capital of West Sumatra, Padang. The strait is in major fault zone and several earthquakes have been located in it, being the most known those of 1833 Sumatra earthquake and that of 2009 Sumatra earthquake. The Sumatran Fault Zone is a highly active fault with slip rates ranging from 10 to 27 mm/yr. Historical earthquake records suggest that fault stepovers constrained past fault ruptures. The Mentawai segment is also still carrying the potential to produce earthquakes in the near future, probably within the next several decades. See also Mentawai Islands Regency The Mentawai Islands Regency is a Regency (Indonesia), regency of We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Mentawai People Mentawai (also known as Mentawei and Mentawi) people are the Austronesian people of the Mentawai Islands (principally Siberut, Sipura, North Pagai and South Pagai) about 100 miles from West Sumatra province, Indonesia. They live a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the coastal and rainforest environments of the islands and are also one of the oldest tribes in Indonesia. The Mentawai population is estimated to be about 64,000. 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. The Mentawai language belongs to the Austronesian languages, Austronesian language family. They follow their own animist belief system called Arat Sabulungan, that links the supernatural powers of ancestral spirits to the ecology o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mentawai Language The Mentawai language is an Austronesian language, spoken by the Mentawai people of the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Dialects According to ''Ethnologue'', Mentawai dialects include: Silabu, Sipura – Simalegi, Sakalagan, Saumanganja – North Siberut, South Siberut – Taikaku – Pagai. Syamsir Arifin, et al. (1992) list twelve dialects of Mentawai: Mentawai South Siberut Madobat Salappa Ulubaga Sipora *Bariulou Bosua Sioban North Pagai *Pasapuat Silabu Saumanganya South Pagai South Pagai (Indonesian: ''Pagai Selatan'') is one of the Mentawai Islands of the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. The island is south of North Pagai (or Pagai Utara) Island. The population figure given for South Pagai (box to the right) refer ... *Boriai Bulasat *Sikakap Dialects in Siberut Island are: Sikapone Togiiite Pokai Simajegi Simatalu Paipajet Sakuddei Sagulubbe Sirileleu Sikabaluan Sempungan Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]