Kangeanese people
Kangeanese or Kangeans (kUH-ngEE-yuhN) are one of the Javan ethnic groups native to the Sunda island of Kangean in northern Bali Sea, who speak the Kangeanic and share common history and culture. Nomenclature Terminology The ‘’ (also spelt as ‘’ in Central Kangean) is an endonym term designated by the locals as ethnonym to identified themselves as a unified ethnic society bound by a common history; the term itself literally means "scion" (the descendant of notable family) in Kangean. It is likely that the ‘’ term might etymologically derived from the Makasar word ‘’, which means "empire" or "kingdom". Meanwhile, on the other hand, the term of ’‘ commonly linked to the Old Javanese word ’‘ (also spelt as Kahyaṅan diacritically) which literally means "visited or overpowered by (divinity of Bali–Java peoples)" or "hermitage" colloquially. In Kangeanese literature, the word ‘’ itself was used throughout the Middle Ages to describe the Kangean island in general, it is still continued to be used to describe the ancentral homeland region of Kangean people in the central to eastern hemisphere of Kangean island, which known as the Kangayan district. During the era of Dutch colonization over Indonesia, the Kangean Island identified either as