Orang Laut (English spelling)

Japanese: Orang Laut(英語表記)OrangLaut
Orang Laut (English spelling)

...These similarities may be related to the ethnic migration in inland China. Whether there is a correlation between the water dwellers known as Orang Laut (sea people) from Malaysia to Indonesia and the Japanese houseboat people remains an open question.
[Jeju Island's Sweet Potato]
It is said that the only other examples of women engaged in diving fishing like the female divers in Japan are those on neighboring South Korea's Jeju Island.

From [Sea Nomads]

...the general term for a group of people who live on boats and engage in fishing while constantly moving at sea. The Dan people of Hong Kong, the people who live from the Mergui Archipelago in southern Myanmar to the Andaman Sea in southern Thailand, the Straits of Malacca, and the coastal areas of Indonesia, and who are generally called the Orang Laut (water people), are known as sea nomads. Among the latter, the Bajau people, who live from North Borneo to the Sulu Islands of the Philippines and the southern coast of Mindanao, are well known.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Orang Laut" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これらの類似は,中国内陸部の民族移動と関係があるかもしれない。マレーシアからインドネシア方面のオラン・ラウトOrang Laut(海の人)とよばれる水上生活者と,日本の家船の人々との相関関係の有無は,まだ残された課題である。
[済州島のあま]
 日本の海女のように,女性が潜水漁労に従事する例は,世界でも,隣接する韓国済州島の海女以外にはみられないといわれる。…

【漂海民】より

…船を住居とし,海上移動を続けながら漁業を行ってきた集団の総称。香港の蛋民(たんみん)やミャンマーの南部メルギー諸島からタイ南部のアンダマン海,さらにマラッカ海峡,インドネシア沿岸諸地域に分布し,一般にオラン・ラウトorang laut(水の民)と呼ばれる人々などが漂海民として知られている。後者のなかでは北ボルネオからフィリピンのスルー諸島,ミンダナオ島南部沿岸に分布するバジャウ族Bajauが著名である。…

※「Orang Laut」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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