Tiv tribe - Tiv (English spelling)

Japanese: ティブ族 - ティブぞく（英語表記）Tiv

The inhabitants of the Benue River basin in northern Nigeria. The population is estimated at over 2 million. They speak Benue-Kongo languages of the Niger-Congo family. They live on agriculture, cultivating millet and other cereals, and yams, and practicing crop rotation. They have many goats and chickens, but livestock raising of cattle and horses is not common due to tsetse flies. They practice polygamy, and their society is based on patrilineage, with people who trace their lineage from a common ancestor forming local communities. A complex marriage system that included exchange marriages, abduction marriages, sale marriages, and compensation marriages was practiced until it was banned in 1927. There was no chief until the British government appointed one in 1948, and political decisions were made by the elders. Some have converted to Christianity and Islam, but their traditional religion of believing in Akombo (the power of God) remains deeply rooted.

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Japanese:

ナイジェリア北部，ベヌエ川流域の住民。人口 200万以上と推定される。言語はニジェール＝コンゴ語派のベヌエ＝コンゴ諸語を話す。生業は農業でもろこしなどの雑穀類やヤムいもを栽培し，輪作を行う。やぎや鶏は多いが，ツェツェバエのため牛や馬の家畜飼育は盛んでない。一夫多妻制で，社会は父系リニージを基盤とし，共通の祖先から系譜をたどる人々が地縁集団を形成する。交換婚，略奪婚，売買婚，代償婚などの複雑な婚姻制度が 1927年に禁止されるまで行われていた。 48年にイギリス政府によって任命されるまでは首長はなく，政治的決定は長老たちによって行われた。キリスト教やイスラム教に改宗した者もいるが，アコムボ (神の力) を信じる伝統的な宗教も根強く残っている。

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