Bugis people, known as Buginese, are an ethnicity—the most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi, in the south-western province of Sulawesi, third-largest island of Indonesia.
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27 Facts About Bugis people
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The main religion embraced by the Bugis is Islam, with a small minority adhering to Christianity or a pre-Islamic indigenous belief called Tolotang.
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Bugis people speak a distinct regional language in addition to Indonesian, called Bugis, with several different dialects.
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The Bugis people language belongs to the South Sulawesi language group; other members include Makassarese, Toraja, Mandar and Massenrempulu.
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The name Bugis people is an exonym which represents an older form of the name; Ugi is the endonym.
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Bugis people's DNA provided important evidence pertaining to the understanding on ancient human migration.
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Homeland of the Bugis people is the area around Lake Tempe and Lake Sidenreng in the Walannae Depression in the south-west peninsula of Sulawesi.
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The Makassarese forces managed to achieve success and captured 30,000 Bugis people prisoners, including La'daremmeng and installed a Makassarese governor.
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The cosmopolitan port city of Makassar become a crucial maritime starting point for not only for the Makassarese, but for the Bugis people who seek for wealth and fame in the western Archipelago, as the Dutch set a heavy restriction for their access on the eastern spice islands.
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Many of the Bugis people settled in the Riau Archipelago, in the proximity of the courts of Johore.
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Bugis people speakers are dominant in the most of the districts in South Sulawesi — namely Bone, Soppeng, Wajo, Sidrap, Pinrang, Barru, Sinjai, and Parepare.
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However, some researchers are divided whether Sawitto — a divergent Bugis people variety spoken in central Pinrang — remains under the same language group or being diverged enough to be considered as a separate language.
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Bugis people-Makassar possessed a rich heritage, philosophy, religious and social structure.
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Bugis people literature connotes to the forms of literature expressed in the Bugis people language — which comprises both written and oral traditions.
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The earliest works of Bugis people literature were verbally transmitted, written literature began to arose and gradually codified with the evolution of the Lontara script by the 1400s.
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Bugis people folk literature is an oral composition deeply rooted in Bugis people understanding and perception of life — in the form of prose, poetry and lyric.
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Some dated as early as 1400 — about two hundred years prior to their Islamisation, the early Bugis people genealogies provide a rare glimpse on the culture and ideology of an early and literate Austronesian society.
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The Bugis people-styled Songkok is made of woven rattan and golden thread.
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Art of weapon among the Bugis people-Makassar is constantly developed through the millennia.
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The presence of a home in the Bugis people society is part-and-parcel with life, hence home ownership is regarded in utmost importance — to commemorate life and to become a beacon symbol of life.
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Development of the Bugis people architecture is originated on the belief that a home is constructed with an optimistic faith for a greater future.
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Across archipelagic Southeast Asia, the Bugis people-Makassar earned the reputation as sailors, navigators and seafaring traders.
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Rich nautical culture of Bugis people-Makassar is equally captured by a plethora of ships — ranging from penjajap, warship; pajala, a smaller boat, used for fishing; palari, another descendant of the padewakang; Lambo, a trading boat; and the early ships of Somba Lete and sompe tanja.
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Rice is highly venerated, based on the historical Bugis people manual-almanac known as Kutika, only during specific schedules, day and time were permitted for cultivating activities; at home, the rice is stored at the attic of the house, signifying its zenith position in the social order; while during war, the destruction of rice fields was perceived as a highly forbidden taboo.
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The Bugis people would commonly organized a selamatan feast for divine favor, protection, thanksgiving and gratitude - including weddings, newborn celebration, aqiqah, house construction ceremony, sending a pilgrim for umrah and hajj, and funerals.
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The Bugis people performing arts can be broadly divided into four distinct categories — entertainment medium, ritualistic performance, court dance and martial arts.
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