The Story Madagascar's First Settlers | History of Indonesia, Austronesia, and the Malagasy
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- čas přidán 3. 10. 2023
- Hello fellow historians. In today's video, we explore the fascinating history of how a small group of farmers from Kalimantan, Indonesia (the Maanyan) ended up thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean on the island of Madagascar. Please join for another fascinating journey through history.
For a complete history and historiography of Indonesian settlement in Madagascar see:
Ann Kumar, “’The Single Most Astonishing Fact of Human Geography’: Indonesia’s Far West Colony,” Southeast Asia Program Publications at Cornell University 92 (Oct 2011): 59-95.
For a brief overview of the genetic and linguistic evidence for Indonesian settlement in Madagascar see:
news.mongabay.com/2012/03/mad...
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
The Indonesian settling of Madascar has always fascinated me, and this settlement has clearly left a genetic footprint on the island. Thank you for this video!
Nothing fascinating their was already ships from asia and arabia reaching southren and east africa so one those ships landing on Madagascar not that supprising
I love that there is a country of Blasians on an island with a truly unique ecosystem
Hey man. Uncool. Let people admire what they want about history.@@sakurakou2009
No problem, thanks for watching friend!
@@sanneoi6323 not all them are blasians, their lot tribes/ethnicities in Madagascar
I appreciate your passion to spread knowledge of this relatively unrecognised history. Godspeed
Madagascar history is so underrated, this was great dude
Thanks, lots of interesting history there, definitely underrepresented
The Austronesian expansion is just unbelievable, extending from Africa to Japan to the Pacific Islands and even to South America (Peru) as genetic and linguistic evidence suggests. It wouldn't be until the modern era (15th century onward) that another language family would finally surpass the Austronesian influence: the Indo-European family. Before then, the Austronesians were the only people on earth to spread their reach across 2/3 of the planet, the most coverage by any ethno-linguistic group by far. Absolutely incredible.
Japan ? Lool
Yeah in okinawa if im not mistaken @@ginoangeles5260
Between 6-8 th Century , Madagascar was part of the Sriwijaya Empire (South Sumatera) ......that is why ,now Madagascar has the only rice field in Africa ......and the Malagasy language has many similar words with Bahasa Indonesia ,therefore both can easily understand each other.....
Yeah Srivijayan empire was very big.
As usual, a delightfully informative presentation on matters sadly absent from the mainstream european syllabus. Many thanks for this - oh, I am always impressed by the indelible fingerprint of linguistics. How some scarcely remarkable things give witness to events far far beyond memory . Fascinating.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed another one friend. Linguistics is such a fascinating field and its study has really reshaped how we understand the world. Truly remarkable indeed!
people usually underestimated how big the realm of nusantara is.
when peoples talking about palapa's oath of gajahmada people will thinking when he is determined to unite all nusantara's world under his reign, people only thinking about the scale of area in SEA, when in reality gajahmada's meaning is about the massive area from madagascar to hawaii
Your videos are great and rigorously researched! I listen to them while pooping
ahaha glad to help!
Very interesting, thank you very much ! Do you have any links or documentation on the administrative resemblance of the Merina with the Javanese and Indonesians. According to your guess, perhaps the Ma'anyan fled to the hills to escape the Javanese. From there, they created their own society and became the merina...
If you link them to the ethnic bajau/sea gypsy you could see how they conquer ocean
Old we call nusantara
She invation Nusantara