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The Lampung people, also commonly referred to as Ulun Lampung, are an ethnic group indigenous to Lampung province and parts of South Sumatra province of the southern and central region that occupy areas such as Martapura, Muaradua at upstream of Komering River, Kayu Agung, Tanjung Raja at downstream of Komering River, Merpas on the southern side of Bengkulu province, as well as Cikoneng in the southwest coast of Banten province, Indonesia. They speak the Lampung language, a Lampungic language estimated to have 1.5 million speakers. ==Origins== The origins of the Lampung people is closely tied to the name of Lampung itself. In the 7th century the Chinese had already mentioned about a place in the south (''Nampang'') where it is said to be the place of the ''Tolang Pohwang'' kingdom. ''To'' means "people" and ''Lang Pohwang'' means "Lampung". Hence its name ''Tolang Pohwang'' which means "Lampung people" or "envoy from Lampung" that came from China until the 7th century. There are strong evidence that Lampung was part of the Srivijaya kingdom with its capital in Jambi and did conquered parts of South East Asia region including Lampung until the 11th century. In the 5th AD ''Tai-Ping-Huan-Yu-Chi'' chronicles, names of the ''Nan-hai'' (Southern ocean) states were recorded and among them are two states which were mentioned in sequence, ''To-lang'' and ''Po-hwang''. The ''To-lang'' state was mentioned only once, but the ''Po-hwang'' state was mentioned many times as this state did sent envoys to China in the year of 442, 449, 451, 459, 464 and 466. According to Prof. Gabriel Ferrand (1918), it is likely that the name ''To-lang'' and ''Po-hwang'' are actually one same name and is located in Tulangbawang, Lampung. It is said that there is also a Tulangbawang kingdom, although the idea simply came from the unification of the two names in the Chinese chronicles. The earlier generation of the Lampung people came from Sekala Brak, at the foot of Mount Pesagi, West Lampung Regency. Its people were inhabited by the ''Buay Tumil'' people and they were ruled by a woman named Ratu Sekerummong. The religion of the people is animism mixed with the Javanese Bairawa Hinduism influences. After the 15th century, the Buay Tumil people later had influences from four Muslim men who came from Pagaruyung Kingdom, West Sumatra that went there. They are Umpu Bejalan Diway, Umpu Nyerupa, Umpu Pernong and Umpu Belunguh. The fourth men is the forerunner of Paksi Pak Sekala Brak as it is mentioned in an ancient manuscript, Kuntara Raja Niti. However, in the Kuntara Raja Niti manuscript, their names are Inder Gajah, Pak Lang, Sikin, Belunguh, and Indarwati. Based on the Kuntara Raja Niti, the hypothesis of the descendants of the Lampung people are as the following: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lampung people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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