Tribal history Tolaki

Tribal history Tolaki



World Tribe ~ tribes Tolaki or Laki often called Tokea. In the foreign literature there is also a mention Lolaki or Lalaki. They stayed in the neighborhood most of the city of Kendari and Kolaka, Southeast Sulawesi Province. This tribe is divided into several subsuku, namely Wiwirano, Labeau, Aserawanua, Mowewe, Mekongga and Tamboki. Total population is estimated at around 150,000 people.

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Language Tribe Tolaki
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Tolaki language belonging to the group of languages ​​Bungku Both. This language has several dialects, such as dialect Mekongga, Konawe, Nawoni, Moronene, Kalisus, and Kabaena.
Livelihood Tribe Tolaki

Tolaki the principal livelihood is farming and paddy fields. Sago is still used as a staple food substitute. Many cattle they raise buffalo and cows. Other livelihoods such as gathering forest products, hunt wild animals with spears and chopsticks and fishing in rivers and the sea is also a lot to do.
See also History of Ethnicity Moronene
Tribal Tolaki

People Tolaki adopts its parental kinship. The new family soon form their own households shortly after the wedding. Male party must provide a dowry of magnitude adjusted to the position of women in society, in addition to the dowry for the oldest girls also are greater in number. In the old days in the mating system is also known Tolaki customary law to provide services to a specific time. Therefore there is an impression settled after marriage customs are matrilocal, but was soon followed by the customary neolocal.

The influence of the royal government system of old traditional causes people Tolaki never know quite sharp social stratification. The nobility of the royal family or a magnifying country is called Anakia, commoners called maradika, and below are the slave caecal prisoners of war and slave.
See also History of Ethnicity Buton
Religion and Belief Tribe Tolaki

Tolaki people have long embraced Islam. But remnants of pre-Islamic beliefs still held by small groups of people. Animism Tolaki believe their spirits that inhabit all objects, called sanggelo. Spirits, which they see as a god called sangia. Both sangia sanggelo and some are good and some are evil. Sanggelo called sanggelo mbae good and evil sangia called sangia mbongae.

Reference: Tarimana 1983, Width 1972

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