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Penyebaran
populasi manusia adakalanya terkesan misteri, lebih-lebih jika persebaran itu
terjadi di masa lampau. Catatan sejarah orang Jawa di Suriname cukup tersedia
yang berasal dari sumber era Hindia Belanda. Bagaimana dengan era sebelum
kehadiran orang Eropa. Semakin jauh ke masa lampau semakin samar. Namun apakah
data masa kini dapat dijadikan untuk proksi memahami masa lalu? Dalam hal ini
apakah ada relasi sejarah antara etnik Igorot di Luzon, Filipina dan etnik
Batak di Sumatra, Indonesia? MO Parlindingan (1964) menyatakan ada kemiripan
ernik Batak dengan Igorot dan Toraja.
The indigenous peoples of the Cordillera Mountain Range of northern Luzon, Philippines are often referred to using the exonym Igorot people, or more recently, as the Cordilleran peoples. There are nine main ethnolinguistic groups whose domains are in the Cordillera Mountain Range, altogether numbering about 1.5 million people in the early 21st century. Their languages belong to the northern Luzon subgroup of Philippine languages, which in turn belongs to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family. These ethnic groups keep or have kept until recently their traditional religion and way of life. Some live in the tropical forests of the foothills, but most live in rugged grassland and pine forest zones higher up. From the root word golot, which means "mountain," Igolot means "people from the mountains", a reference to any of various ethnic groups in the mountains of northern Luzon. During the Spanish colonial era, the term was variously recorded as Igolot, Ygolot, and Igorrote, compliant to Spanish orthography. The endonyms Ifugao or Ipugaw (also meaning "mountain people") are used more frequently by the Igorots themselves, as igorot is viewed by some as slightly pejorative, except by the Ibaloys. The Spanish borrowed the term Ifugao from the lowland Gaddang and Ibanag groups. (Wikipedia)
Lantas bagaimana sejarah kemiripan warna budaya tanda hubungan budaya? Apakah ada hubungan sejarah etnik Igorot di Filipina dan etnik Batak di Sumatra? Seperti disebut di atas, hubungan bangsa (etnik) antara satu tempat dengan tempat lain ada data yang tersedia. Akan tetapi ada juga yang sulit diperoleh, dalam hal ini digunakan data masa kini. Lalu bagaimana sejarah kemiripan warna budaya tanda hubungan budaya dan apakah ada hubungan sejarah etnik Igorot di Filipina dan etnik Batak di Sumatra? Seperti kata ahli sejarah tempo doeloe, semuanya ada permulaan. Untuk menambah pengetahuan dan meningkatkan wawasan sejarah nasional, mari kita telusuri sumber-sumber tempo doeloe.\