Bajau

Japanese: Bajau
Bajau

...The Dan people of Hong Kong, the people who live in the areas from the Mergui Archipelago in the south of 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. In Japan, sea nomads called Ebune live in Nishisonogi County, Nagasaki Prefecture, and in various parts of the Seto Inland Sea.

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Japanese:

…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。日本では〈家船(えぶね)〉と呼ばれる漂海民が,長崎県西彼杵(にしそのき)郡や瀬戸内海の各地に分布していた。…

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