History: Malagasy origins moved to Banjar

RESOURCE: MELANESIAN AUSTRONESIAN / MALAYO-POLYNESIAN SOLIDARITY

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Old photograph of nobles from Banjarmasin, cultural and historical capital of Banjar.

Madagascar still continues to fascinate researchers around the world, therefore, research is always more and more advanced to find the origins of the population of the Big Island. It is now almost certain that the Asian gene is inseparable from the 25 million Malagasy people.

"Epicanthal fold," a word that comes straight from the labs some would say, a name that will never leave a surgical operating room according to others. However, this ocular detail unites all Malagasy people. In the urban legends of the diaspora, this trait would make it possible to recognize any Malagasy in the metro, whatever their complexion or their attire.

This also recalls the preponderance of Asian origins in the genes of the peoples of the Big Island. If most of the scientific theories used to discover the origins of the Malagasy, and by extension its uniqueness, have not yet been stopped. The "epicanthal fold" is more than indisputable, since it can be read directly on the face of every Malagasy from any geographic human group.

The recent genetic research published in 2016 by Kusuma Pradipta Jati in “Contrasting linguistic and genetic origins of the Asian source populations of Malagasy”, remains elusive on the precise geographical origins of the first occupants of Madagascar. Noting in a passage that the Malagasy Asian genetic components are found in "modern populations located between Sulawesi (East Indonesia) and Borneo (West Indonesia)".

According to this research, the hypothesis according to which the Ma'anyan have a lot in common with the Malagasy at the level of the DNA, has been somewhat flawed. Linguistics confirms the opposite, however. The new studies therefore tend to confirm that the Malagasy origins, so to speak its Asian genes, come from Banjar. It is both a linguistic geographic area and a people living on the island of Borneo.

Daily scene captured in a village in the Philippines, close cousins ​​of the Malagasy people.

Millennia. These results can also be redefined, given that the first movements of the first groups of men from Southeast Asia are said to have started 5,000 years before the Christian era. It could therefore be that migratory waves, temporary or having chosen to stay, could have an impact on the Malagasy genes. However, the epicanthal fold is an indelible trace of the common origins.

It is found among the Vezo, a geographic human group in the southwest, whose Asian traces are closest to the Austronesians. Groups like the Sakalava, the Merina, the Tanala, the Sihanaka ... Either from north to south, east to west, the Malagasy have the same "look".

For simplicity, this term refers to slanted eyes. The Malagasy therefore have it in common with all the populations concerned by the Austronesian migration. Stretching from East Africa, to part of Arabia in the east, also to the Pacific Ocean. Maminirina Rado.

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How the Banjar people of Borneo became ancestors of the Malagasy and Comorian people

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