PeopleGroups.org - Minahasa-Sangir of Sulawesi

PEOPLE CLUSTER: MINAHASA-SANGIR OF SULAWESI

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People groups: 14

Population: 1,732,900

Unreached people groups: 0

UPG population: 0

Unengaged UPGs: 0

UUPG population: 0

Number of countries: 1

Affinity Bloc: Malay Peoples

Overview: Sulawesi is the world's eleventh largest island and Indonesia's fourth largest island. Minahasa and Sangir are two families of Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken throughout North Sulawesi. Christianity, Islam, and traditional religion are all practiced among the people groups that comprise the Minahasa-Sangir of Sulawesi people cluster.

Peoples within this cluster: Bantik; Bintauna; Mongondow; Ponasakan; Ratahan; Sangirese; Siau Sangirese; Tagulandang; Talaud; Tombulu Menadonese; Tondanou; Tonsawang; Tonsea; Tontemboa

Countries where they are found: Indonesia