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1 day ago · The "free soul" is said to leave the body and journey to the spirit world during sleep, trance-like states, delirium, insanity, and death. The duality is also seen in the healing traditions of Austronesian shamans, where illnesses are regarded as a " soul loss " and thus to heal the sick, one must "return" the "free soul" (which may have been ...
1 day ago · Chinese ( simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. ' Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages [e] spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. Approximately 1.35 billion people, or around 16% of the global population ...
14 hours ago · The Iban language ( jaku Iban) is spoken by the Iban, one of the Dayak ethnic groups, who live in Brunei, the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan and in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. It belongs to the Malayic subgroup, a Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. Iban has reached a stage of becoming a koiné language in ...
2 days ago · 42-C. Glottolog. kart1248. The Kartvelian languages ( / kɑːrtˈvɛliən, - ˈviːl -/ kart-VEL-ee-ən, -VEEL-; Georgian: ქართველური ენები, romanized: kartveluri enebi; also known as South Caucasian, Kartvelic, and Iberian languages [1]) are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken ...
5 days ago · Bugis Wikipedia (Wikipedia basa Ugi) is the Bugis-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia The present-day Bugis people are mostly bilingual . In South Sulawesi, they use two leading languages , either Bugis or Indonesian , tailored based on the environment, social circle and activities.
3 days ago · Khmer ( / kəˈmɛər / kə-MAIR; [3] ខ្មែរ, UNGEGN: Khmêr [kʰmae]) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people, and the official and national language of Cambodia. Khmer has been influenced considerably by Sanskrit and Pali, especially in the royal and religious registers, through Hinduism and Buddhism.
4 days ago · This body, with 61 tattoos, was found embedded in glacial ice in the Alps, and was dated to 3250 BCE. [3] [5] In 2018, the oldest figurative tattoos in the world were discovered on two mummies from Egypt which are dated between 3351 and 3017 BCE. [6] Ancient tattooing was widely practiced among the Austronesian people.
