Minangkabau people - Minangkabau people (English spelling)

Japanese: ミナンカバウ族 - ミナンカバウぞく（英語表記）Minangkabau

Originally an ethnic group that lived in the Padang highlands in central Sumatra. They are also found in other parts of Indonesia and Malaysia. Their population is estimated to be between 2 and 5 million. Their language is Austronesian. Influenced by Indian culture, they established the Manila Empire, which ruled the highlands and had colonies in the Malay Peninsula. They have many things in common with coastal Malays, but their social organization is different, and although they are Muslim, they are matrilineal. They have a matrilineal descent group called a suku, whose head is passed down to the son of a brother's sister. A mother, her sisters, daughters, and children live in a large house on stilts with a saddle-shaped roof, and the son lives in his mother's house and visits his wife. In recent years, the importance of the above kinship organization has declined, and many men have left the village to start their own households with their wives and children, and these households have also started to own the land of the kinship group. Their belief system is a mixture of traditional religions, Hinduism, and Islam. In addition to paddy cultivation, tobacco and cinnamon cultivation, they excel in wood carving, metalwork and weaving.

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Japanese:

元来スマトラ中央部のパダン高地に住む民族。他のインドネシアの諸地域やマレーシアにも分布している。人口は 200万～500万の間と推定される。言語はオーストロネシア語族に属する。かつてインド文化の影響を受け，マニラ帝国を建設して高原一帯を支配し，マレー半島に植民地をもっていた。沿岸マレー人と共通点が多いが社会組織が異なり，イスラム教徒であるにもかかわらず母系制社会である。スクといわれる母系出自集団があり，その長は兄弟の姉妹の息子に継承される。高床式で鞍形屋根の大家屋に母親とその姉妹，娘，子供たちが住み，息子は母親の家に住んで妻方を訪問した。最近は上記の親族組織の重要性が衰退し，男性たちは村を離れて妻子とともに世帯をもつ者が多くなり，親族集団の土地もこれら世帯が私有するようになった。信仰体系には，伝統的宗教，ヒンドゥー教，イスラム教が混在している。水田耕作，タバコ，シナモンの栽培のほか，木彫，金工，織物にすぐれる。

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