Tanala people - Tanala (English spelling)

Japanese: タナラ族 - タナラぞく（英語表記）Tanala

An ethnic group living on the island of Madagascar. It is certain that by the beginning of the 1st century, Austronesian-speaking Indonesian tribes had crossed the sea and reached eastern Africa, particularly Madagascar, judging from their characteristics, language, and culture. They speak Malagasy, which belongs to the Indonesian languages. They live in the Tanara forests of the central highlands, moving around and cultivating upland rice using slash-and-burn farming, and building villages. Kinship relations were traditionally considered to be patrilineal, but a recent theory has been put forward that they were originally bilineal with a patrilineal tendency. Their religion is centered on ancestor worship, and they hold elaborate funerals. Around the 18th century, they learned rice paddy cultivation from the neighboring Betileo people, and there was an increasing tendency for rice paddies to be privatized, for families to be unitary, and for people to settle down. (→Malagasi people)

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Japanese:

マダガスカル島に住む一民族。1世紀初め頃までに，オーストロネシア語を話すインドネシア諸族が海を渡ってアフリカの東部，特にマダガスカル島に達したことは形質，言語，文化の面からみて，確実である。言語はインドネシア諸語に属するマラガシー語を話す。中央部の高原地帯のタナラ森林に住み，移動しながら焼畑で陸稲を栽培し，村をつくっていた。親族関係は従来は父系制であるとされたが，最近では，元来は父系的傾きがある双系制であるという説が唱えられている。宗教は祖先崇拝を中心とし入念な葬式を行う。 18世紀頃に隣のベチレオ族から水田耕作を学び，水田の私有化，家族の単位化，定住化の傾向が増した。 (→マラガシー人 ) 　

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