You may be onto something, after-all the Minang are traditionally matrilineal, and the men did often leave their home villages...
And so perhaps that led to the adoption of a wide variety of local swords, probably so long as they fit the stylistic preferences of the Minang fighting styles... ? The database would suggest that Minangkabu sword were often of the long thin saber variety, some with D-guards like you said... but nothing overly unique as far as I can tell. Makes me wonder, if this design was indigenous, or perhaps part of the Arab and Indian influences that also led to such blades such as piso podang in the Acehnese and Batak.. ?
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