Bajau Sama

Bajau Sama Ethnic Of Borneo During Malaysia Independence Day Stock Sama bajau sama bajau. An ethnic group of malay origin, the bajau people have lived almost exclusively on the water for centuries. while other "sea nomad" groups have existed in history, the bajau may be the last seafaring people still in existence today. they reside in southeast asia, in the waters southwest of the philippines. a migratory people, they drift from.

Sama Bajau The Nomads Of The Sea Who Measure The Passage Of Time By Samal or bajau. bajau also spelled: bajao, badjao, bajo, or bajaw. sama, one of the largest and most diverse ethnolinguistic groups of insular southeast asia. the sama live mainly in the southern half of the sulu archipelago, in the southwestern philippines, although significant populations also live along the coasts of northeastern borneo. Orang bajau samah pantai barat terkenal sebagai penunggang kuda, pembuat parang dan pesawah [8] serta penternak.pada masa yang sama juga, masyarakat bajau pantai timur sabah khasnya dari daerah semporna juga mendapat gelaran istimewa dan unik seperti “sea gypsies" [9], panglima dilaut, pelaut dan pelayar terunggul. The sama bajau believe that umboh tuhan (umboh dilaut, the “lord of the sea”) and dayang dayang mangilai (“lady of the forest”) are the supreme deities. umboh tuhan, the creator deity, is thought to have created humans equal to animals and plants. in animistic religions like theirs, physical and spiritual realms coexist. This includes the seafaring bajau of sabah, who are only known to malaysians as bajau. according to the ethnologue there are 84,000 northern sama (sse), 90,000 central sama (sml), 34,000 sama pangutaran (slm), 319,000 southern sama (ssb), and 42,470 sama mapun (sjm). that totals 569,470 sama people. we suspect that this number to be more.