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Mongondow people Bolaang Mongondow
A group of Mongondow women in North Sulawesi, pre-1943.
Total population
230,000 (2000) [1]
Regions with significant populations
Indonesia: North Sulawesi Gorontalo Philippines
Languages
Mongondow language, Manado Malay, Kaidipang language, Lolak language, Ponosakan language, Bolango language, Bintauna language, Indonesian language
Religion
Sunni Islam 98% ; Protestantism 1% ; Roman Catholicism 1%[2]
The Mongondow or Bolaang Mongondow people are an ethnic group native to the north-eastern part of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The Mongondows are predominantly Muslim. They have traditionally been concentrated in the provinces of North Sulawesi and Gorontalo. This ethnic group used to be united by a single entity, the Kingdom of Bolaang Mongondow, which became the western regencies of North Sulawesi after the Indonesian independence.
The Mongondow or Bolaang Mongondowpeople are an ethnic group native to the north-eastern part of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The Mongondows are...
Mongondow may be, Mongondowpeople, a people of Sulawesi, Indonesia Mongondow language, their Austronesian language Kingdom of Bolaang Mongondow Bolaang...
Mongondow, or Bolaang Mongondow, is one of the Philippine languages spoken in Bolaang Mongondow Regency and neighbouring regencies of North Sulawesi (Celebes)...
Bolaang Mongondow, previously known as Kingdom of Bola'ang, was a state that ruled over the majority of the area of the present-day Bolaang-Mongondow regencies...
language (Ponosakan) is considered moribund and is part of the Gorontalo-Mongondow microgroup. The language of wider communication, Manado Malay (also known...
Ningkan, Jau. Minahasan people from North Sulawesi, for example, Lembong, Mogot, Ratulangi, Sondakh, or Tendean. Mongondowpeople from North Sulawesi, for...
Minahasan bride resembles a mermaid. Mongondow kabaya, or simply called kabaya, is a type of kebaya of Mongondowpeople of North Sulawesi and Gorontalo. Kabaya...
Philippines. Among the Dayak, Sundanese, Kayan, Kenyah, Berawan, Iban and Mongondowpeople, red ti are used as wards against evil spirits and as boundary markers...
north of the province and the Mongondow to the south. The province's chief city is Manado with a population of 458,580 people according to the mid 2023 official...
Sangirese people are fishermen and nutmeg growers in their home areas and also work as wage labourers in industrial crops enterprises in Bolaang Mongondow Regency...
Philippines. Among the Dayak, Sundanese, Kayan, Kenyah, Berawan, Iban and Mongondowpeople, red ti are used as wards against evil spirits and as boundary markers...
vocabulary as well as Minahasan innovations. Sangiric languages Gorontalo–Mongondow languages Languages of Sulawesi Watuseke, F. S. (1965), "Kata-kata Ternate...
at the eastern end of Gorontalo–Mongondow languages' distribution. This language has been spoken by the Ponosakan people in and around Belang [id] from...
Bajo people) which are distributed in many areas of eastern Indonesia. Makassar Malay and Manado Malay are Malay-based creoles. The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages...
Makassar, followed suit in September. However, the Gorontalo and the Mongondowpeoples of the northern peninsula largely converted to Islam only in the 19th...
2008) East Bolaang Mongondow Regency from Bolaang Mongondow Regency (24 June 2008) South Bolaang Mongondow Regency from Bolaang Mongondow Regency (24 June...
the Philippines. Gorontalo along with Mongondow are classified by linguists as being part of the Gorontalo–Mongondow languages, which are part of the wider...
an illegal gold mine collapsed in Bolaang Mongondow Regency, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. At least 29 people were killed and dozens more were trapped due...
Bantik people, other indigenous groups in Manado today are from the Sangir, Gorontalo, Mongondow, Babontehu, Talaud, Tionudese, Siau, and Borgo peoples. There...
of education and commerce for the surrounding regions such as Bolaang Mongondow (North Sulawesi), Buol, Luwuk, Banggai, Donggala (Central Sulawesi) and...
the kulintang is also called kolintang by the people of Maranao and Sulawesi, kulintango by Mongondow, totobuang by those in central Maluku, kulintangan...
tsunami, and 90 householders were moved by the government to Bolaang-Mongondow Regency as a result. In 2005, the Indonesian government refused a shipping...
him. His father was a Minahasan Protestant and his late mother was a Mongondow Muslim. Since childhood, he has been accustomed to living in a family...
a Malayic language spoken by 300,000 to 500,000 people. It is the native language of the Kutai people (Indonesian: Suku Kutai, Kutai: Urang Kutai)[what...
Philippine languages: Gorontalo language, spoken in Gorontalo province. Mongondow language, spoken in western part of North Sulawesi. Minahasan languages...
Punan language of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, one of several spoken by the Punan people. Aput at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) v t e...
Indonesian, but both of these are prestige varieties of the archipelago. Many people are able to understand standard Indonesian, but cannot speak it fluently...
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