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Ngada People
The Ngada people (''Ata Ngada''; also known as Ngadha, Nad'a, Nga'da, Bajawa, or Rokka) are an ethnic group inhabiting the central part of Flores Island, especially in Ngada Regency. The Ngada population numbers around 60,000 people. They belong to the Bima-Sumba language-speaking group. Ngada are descendants of the indigenous people of Flores Island. The coastal inhabitants are influenced by the culture of the Malay, Bugis, and Makassar. The majority of them adhere to Roman Catholicism, while some mountain dwellers still maintain their traditional beliefs. Livelihood Traditionally, they engage in agriculture, cultivating rice, corn, millet, and cash crops – beans, squash, peanuts, vegetables, and spices. Apart from that, their other livelihoods are hunting, gathering, and livestock farming. Weaving crafts are widespread, and some are involved in metalworking. Their main commodities are primarily plant-based foods, while meat is consumed during festive occasions. Language ...
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea, Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the List of countries and dependencies by area, 14th-largest country by area, at . With over 280 million people, Indonesia is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fourth-most-populous country and the most populous Islam by country, Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's List of islands by population, most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. Indonesia operates as a Presidential system, presidential republic with an elected People's Consultative Assembly, legislature and consists of Provinces of Indonesia, 38 provinces, nine of which have Autonomous administrative divisi ...
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Malays (ethnic Group)
Malays ( ; , Jawi alphabet, Jawi: ) are an Austronesian peoples, Austronesian ethnoreligious group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands that lie between these locations. These locations are today part of the countries of Malaysia, Indonesia (eastern and southern Sumatra, Bangka Belitung Islands, West Kalimantan and Riau Islands), the southern part of Thailand (Pattani Province, Pattani, Satun Province, Satun, Songkhla Province, Songkhla, Yala Province, Yala and Narathiwat Province, Narathiwat), Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. There is considerable linguistic, cultural, artistic and social diversity among the many Malay subgroups, mainly due to hundreds of years of immigration and assimilation of various regional ethnicity and tribes within Maritime Southeast Asia. Historically, the Malay population is descended primarily from the earlier Malayic languages, Malayic-speaking Austronesians and Austroasiatic languages, Au ...
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Manggarai Language
The Manggarai language (, ) is the language of the Manggarai people from the western parts of the island of Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Background Manggarai is the native language of the Manggarai people of Flores island in East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. Based on statistical data reported by the Central Agency on Statistics ( BPS) in 2009, it is the native language of more than 730,000 people in the province of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. 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 city of Indonesia. Formerly a neighbourhood in the capital with a large concentration of transmigrant workers from the Greater Manggarai region of Nusa Tenggara Timur East Nusa Tenggara (; ) is the southernmost province of Indonesia. It comprises the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, facing the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in ...
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Central Flores Languages
The Central Flores languages (also called Ngadha–Lio) are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family. They are spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. The speech area of the Central Flores languages is bordered to the west by the Manggarai language, and to the east by the Sikka language. __TOC__ Languages The Central Flores subgroup comprises the following languages, from west to east (with subvarieties): * Rongga * Namut and Nginamanu * Ngadha (Bajawa, Central, So'a) * Kéo *Nage (Central, East) * Nga'o (West, East) * Ende * Lio Grammar Unlike most other Austronesian languages, the Central Flores languages are highly isolating. They completely lack derivational and inflectional morphemes, and core grammatical relations are mostly expressed by word order. For example, in Rongga, there is strict SVO word order: () 'that horse kick(ed) me'. Possession is expressed by placing the possessor after the posse ...
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Paluʼe Language
Paluʼe (also spelled Palue and Paluqe; native name ) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on Paluʼe Island, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, .... Phonology Vowels Consonants References Further reading *Danerek, Stefan. (2019). "Phonologic variation in Paluʼe, a language from Eastern Indonesia, and the divising of an orthographic system". ''Ethnorema'' (15)DOI: 10.23814/ethn.15.19.dan https://www.ethnorema.it/en/journal/ *Danerek, Stefan. (2019)''Kamus Bahasa Paluʼe-Indonesia''.Depok. UI Publishing. . Review by Nazarudin (2020). ''Wacana''. 21:3:496-498. http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/983/pdf_141 External links Stefan Danerek Paluʼe audio collection Kaipuleohone, the digital language archive of the University of Hawaii, Hon ...
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Lio Language
Lio (also erroneously spelled ''Li'o'') is an Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, .... It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup. Phonology References Further reading * {{Languages of Indonesia Sumba languages Languages of Indonesia ...
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Ende Language (Indonesia)
Ende is an Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup. Phonology Grammar Like all Central Flores languages, Ende has a highly isolating structure. See also * Lio language *Ende Regency Ende Regency is a Regency (Indonesia), regency on the island of Flores, within East Nusa Tenggara Province of Indonesia. The regency covers an area of 2,091.19 km2, and it had a population of 260,605 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Ja ... References Languages of Indonesia {{au-lang-stub ...
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Kéo Language
Kéo or Nagé-Kéo is a Malayo-Polynesian languages, Malayo-Polynesian dialect cluster spoken by the Kéo and Nage people (ʼata Kéo 'Kéo people') that reside in an area southeast of the Ebu Lobo volcano in the south-central part of Nusa Tenggara Timur Province on the island of Flores, eastern Indonesia, largely in the eponymous Nagekeo Regency. Kéo belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Bima-Lembata subgroups of the Austronesian language family and there are approximately 40,000 speakers. Kéo is sometimes referred to as Nage-Kéo, ''Nage'' being the name of a neighbouring ethnic group that is generally considered culturally distinct from Kéo; however, whether or not the two languages are separate entities is ambivalent. Uncommon to Austronesian languages, Kéo is a highly isolating language that lacks inflectional morphology or clear morphological derivation. Instead it relies more heavily on Lexical (semiotics), lexical and syntactic grammat ...
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Ngadha Language
Ngadha (, also spelled Ngada, Ngada or Ngada) is an Austronesian language, one of six languages spoken in the central stretch of the Indonesian island of Flores. From west to east these languages are Ngadha, Nage, Keo, Ende, Lio, and Palu'e. These languages form the proposed Central Flores group of the Sumba–Flores languages, according to Blust (2009). Djawanai (1983) precises that Ngadha somewhat deviates from Austronesian norms, in that words do not have clear cognates and the grammatical processes are different; for example, the Austronesian family of languages makes an abundant use of prefixes or suffixes (which form new words by adding extensions either before or after root-words, such as er-orm or child hood, whereas the Ngadha language uses no prefixes or suffixes. Ngadha is one of the few languages with a retroflex implosive . Phonology The sound system of Ngadha is as follows. Vowels The short vowel is written followed by a double consonant, since phonetically ...
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Makassar People
The native Makassar, Macassar, Makassarese, Makassan or Macassan are one of the indigenous Sulawesi people, native to the southern Celebic peninsular regions (concentrated around the Makassar area) in Indonesia. The Makassar people are rich in culture and they are acknowledged for their traditional culinary and maritime knowledges, together with the Bugis, its closest related ethnic group. The '' Phinisi'', a worldwide well-known boatbuilding of Southern Sulawesi-origin, a joint invention of Bugis-Makassar people, is internationally inscribed as the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Makassar people speak various Makassaric languages, including Standard Makassar, as well as Standard Indonesian and Makassar Malay. The Makassar people are amongst the first native people who are endowed with the harvesting and processing knowledge of '' holothuroidea'' (sea cucumber, natively found betw ...
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Bugis
The Bugis people, also known as Buginese, are an Austronesian ethnic groupthe most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi (the others being Makassarese and Torajan), in the south-western province of Sulawesi, third-largest island of Indonesia. The Bugis in 1605 converted to Islam from Animism. Although the majority of Bugis are Muslim, a small minority adhere to Christianity as well as a pre-Islamic indigenous belief called ''Tolotang''. The Bugis, whose population numbers around six million and constitutes less than 2.5% of the Indonesian population, are influential in the politics in the country; and historically influential on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands and other parts of the archipelago where they have migrated en masse, starting in the late seventeenth century. The third president of Indonesia, B. J. Habibie, and a former vice president of Indonesia, Jusuf Kalla, are Bugis descent. In Malaysia, the ...
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