New kris book

[David]

Originally Posted by Green

I received this book about a week ago. Have not read it properly but had a quick scan through the text. One surprise for me is the author's claim that the Bugis people originates partly from the migration of the Malays from Malacca among other places ; even before the fall of Malacca to the Portuguese in the 15th Century the Malays have traveled to Sulawesi, hence Bugis and Malays are "serumpun" (of the same people).

Well, as i understand it, these are all Austronesian peoples, but the Bugis ancestors were already in Sulawesi long before Malays migrated from Malacca.

"The Austronesian ancestors of the Bugis people settled on Sulawesi around 2500 B.C. There is "historical linguistic evidence of some late Holocene immigration of Austronesian speakers to South Sulawesi from Taiwan"—which means that the Buginese have "possible ultimate ancestry in South China", and that as a result of this immigration, "there was an infusion of an exogenous population from China or Taiwan." Migration from South China by some of the paternal ancestors of the Bugis is also supported by studies of Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups."

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