Ituri Forest (English spelling)

Japanese: Ituri Forest(英語表記)IturiForest
Ituri Forest (English spelling)

...Currently, the pygmies are distributed over a fairly wide area, mainly in the basin of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) and the Republic of the Congo, from Cameroon in the west to Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi in the east, and south of Lake Tanganyika. Among them, the Binga group, who live in the lowlands north of the Congo (Zaire) River and west of the Ubangi River, and the Mbuti group, who live in the Ituri Forest in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are the only group that live together. Although they are also hunter-gatherers, unlike the San, the pygmies do not have their own language, but use the languages ​​of the neighboring Bantu and Sudanese agricultural peoples. ...

*Some of the terms mentioned in "Ituri Forest" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…現在,ピグミーの分布は,コンゴ民主共和国(旧,ザイール),コンゴ共和国の盆地を中心に,西はカメルーンからナイジェリア,東はウガンダ,ルワンダ,ブルンジ,南はタンガニーカ湖の南方まで,かなり広範囲に分散している。そのなかで,まとまって居住するのはコンゴ(ザイール)川の北部とウバンギ川の西の低湿地に住むビンガBingaと呼ばれるグループと,コンゴ民主共和国北東部のイトゥリの森Ituri Forestに住むムブティMbutiのグループである。同じ採集狩猟民でも,サンと違ってピグミーには独自の言語はなく,隣接するバントゥー系やスーダン系の農耕民の言語を用いている。…

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