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Ngaju

People Kalimantan Tengah PEO-0009

Attenuated

Other and rejected name forms (4)

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Ngaju Primary name
Dayak Ngaju Alternate name
Oloh Ngaju Alternate name
Dayak Umbrella term
Istilah payung untuk banyak kelompok Kalimantan
Covers dozens of groups differing in language and custom. Useful as a political category and misleading as an ethnographic one.

Every source carries its tier. Tier 1 is material originating from the community itself; tier 6 is a tertiary source recorded only as a marker of a circulating claim and never as the basis of a statement.

  1. 1 T2 Tier 2 — Peer-reviewed scholarshipJournal article Schärer, Hans. Ngaju Religion: The Conception of God among a South Borneo People. Terj. R. Needham. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1963.
  2. 2 T3 Tier 3 — Institutional and officialOfficial statistics Badan Pusat Statistik. Kewarganegaraan, Suku Bangsa, Agama dan Bahasa Sehari-hari Penduduk Indonesia. Jakarta: BPS, 2011.