Minangkabau people, known as Minang, are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the Minangkabau Highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia.
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30 Facts About Minangkabau people
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Minangkabau people are the ethnic majority in West Sumatra and Negeri Sembilan.
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Minangkabau people are a recognised minority in other parts of Indonesia as well as Malaysia, Singapore and the Netherlands.
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Minangkabau people language is a member of the Austronesian language family, and is closest to the Malay language, though when the two languages split from a common ancestor and the precise historical relationship between Malay and Minangkabau people culture is not known.
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The Minangkabau people kings were charismatic or magical figures, but did not have much authority over the conduct of village affairs.
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Around the same time other parts of the Minangkabau people economy had a period of unparalleled expansion as new opportunities for the export of agricultural commodities arose, particularly with coffee which was in very high demand.
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Traditional historiography of the Minangkabau people tells of the development of the Minangkabau people World and its adat.
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The first Minangkabau people are said to have arrived by ship and landed on Mount Marapi when it was no bigger than the size of an egg, which protruded from a surrounding body of water.
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Minangkabau people have large corporate descent groups, but they traditionally reckon descent matrilineally.
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The Minangkabau people were prominent among the intellectual figures in the Indonesian independence movement.
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The tradition of merantau meant that the Minangkabau people developed a cosmopolitan bourgeoisie that readily adopted and promoted the ideas of an emerging nation-state.
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Adat derives in part from the ancient animist and buddhist belief system of the Minangkabau people, which existed before the arrival of Islam to Sumatra.
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When precisely the religion spread across the island and was adopted by the Minangkabau people is unclear, though it probably arrived in West Sumatra around the 16th century.
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Traditional Minangkabau people music includes saluang jo dendang which consists of singing to the accompaniment of a bamboo flute, and gong-chime music.
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Staple ingredients of the Minangkabau people diet are rice, fish, coconut, green leafy vegetables and chili.
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Minangkabau people food is popular among Indonesians and restaurants are present throughout Indonesia.
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Theme in Minangkabau people folktales is the central role mothers and motherhood has in Minangkabau people society, with the folktales Rancak di Labuah and Malin Kundang being two examples.
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Minangkabau people are the largest matrilineal society in the world, with property, family name and land passing down from mother to daughter, while religious and political affairs are the responsibility of men, although some women play important roles in these areas.
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Minangkabau people language is an Austronesian language belonging to the Malayic linguistic subgroup, which in turn belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch.
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Minangkabau people dialects are regional, consisting of one or more villages, and usually correspond to differences in customs and traditions.
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Minangkabau people society has a diglossia situation, whereby they use their native language for everyday conversations, while the Malay language is used for most formal occasions, in education, and in writing, even to relatives and friends.
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The Minangkabau people language was originally written using the Jawi script, an adapted Arabic alphabet.
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Overseas Minangkabau people are great influence developing Malaysian and Singaporean culture, mainly language, culinary, music, and martial art.
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Minangkabau people are famous for their dedication to knowledge, as well as the widespread diaspora of their men throughout southeast Asia, the result being that Minangs have been disproportionately represented in positions of economic and political power throughout the region.
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Many people of Minangkabau descent have held prominent positions in the Indonesian and Malay nationalist movements.
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Nowadays, besides Chinese Indonesian, Minangkabau people have made significant contributions to Indonesia's economic activities.
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Minangkabau people businessmen are notable in hospitality sector, media industry, healthcare, publisher, automotive, and textile trading.
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