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  2. Gorontalo people - Wikipedia

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    The Gorontalo people have traditionally been concentrated in the provinces of Gorontalo, North Sulawesi, and the northern part of Central Sulawesi. [4] The Gorontalo people are predominantly Muslim. [5] Their native language is the Gorontalo language and several minor languages from the Gorontalic languages family.

  3. Minahasan people - Wikipedia

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    At the time of the first contact with Europeans the sultanate of Ternate held some sway over North Sulawesi, and the area was often visited by seafaring Bugis traders from South Sulawesi. The Spanish and the Portuguese, the first Europeans to arrive, landed in Minahasa via the port of Makasar, but also landed at the Sulu archipelago (off the ...

  4. Torajan people - Wikipedia

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    Location of Sulawesi in Indonesia. The Torajan are an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.Their population is approximately 1,100,000, of whom 450,000 live in the regency of Tana Toraja ("Land of Toraja"). [1]

  5. Sangir people - Wikipedia

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    Sangir (Sangihe, Sangil) is a native people of the Sangir Islands in the northern chain of islands in Sulawesi and the southern part of Mindanao.The 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 and Minahasa Regency.

  6. Bugis - Wikipedia

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    In the South Sulawesi province, the affixes such as -ki', -ko, na-, -ji, - mi, etc. are emulated and conceived in the Indonesian-Bugis-Makassar hybrid. The Bugis-Makassar accent, known as Okkots is also observed for the usage of a stronger -ng pronunciation in parts its speech. The fixture is not exclusively confined in the borders of South ...

  7. Mongondow people - Wikipedia

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    The region of the Bolaang Mongondow covers 50.3% of the area of North Sulawesi [12] so much so that the Bolaang Mongondow government together with the community leaders, customary leaders and religious leaders had agreed to divide the region with the full support of the Bolaang Mongondow regent, the then Marlina Moha Siahaan.

  8. Sulawesi - Wikipedia

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    Sulawesi (/ ˌ s uː l ə ˈ w eɪ s i / SOO-lə-WAY-see), [1] also known as Celebes (/ ˈ s ɛ l ɪ b iː z, s ə ˈ l iː b iː z / SEL-ib-eez, sə-LEE-beez), [2] is an island in Indonesia.One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago.

  9. Balantak people - Wikipedia

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    Balantak is an ethnic group residing in Banggai Regency, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Balantak community is divided into two sub-ethnic groups: the Tanoturan and the Dale-Dale . [ 1 ] Most Balantak people in Banggai live on the East Peninsula .