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The Balanta ( Guinea-Bissau Creole and Portuguese: balanta; French: balante; lit. “those who resist” in Mandinka [2]) are an ethnic group found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Senegal, Cape Verde and The Gambia. They are the largest ethnic group of Guinea-Bissau, representing more than one-quarter of the population.
Balanta-Kentohe. The Balanta-Kentohe ( Kəntɔhɛ) language is spoken by about 423,000 people on the north central and central coast of Guinea-Bissau (where as of 2006 it is spoken by about 397,000 people, many of whom can be found in the Oio Region [4]) as well as in the Gambia. Films and portions of the Bible have been produced in Balanta ...
A Roberval balance shown responding to two masses of equal weight. The Roberval balance is a weighing scale presented to the French Academy of Sciences by the French mathematician Gilles Personne de Roberval in 1669. In this scale, two identical horizontal beams are attached, one directly above the other, to a vertical column, which is attached ...
Haplogroup E-M132, formerly known as E-M33 (E1a), is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. Along with E-P177, it is one of the two main branches of the older E-P147 paternal clade. E-M132 is divided into two primary sub-branches, E-M44 and E-Z958, with many descendant subclades.
Balantak, Sulawesi. Coordinates: 0.814167°S 123.370278°E. A Balantak woman (1913) Balantak is a district in the Banggai regency, Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Balantak people speak the Balantak language. As of 1982, there were an estimate 30,000 Balantak, spread over several districts (the population of Balantak District itself was only 5,966 at ...
Éder Fabián Álvarez Balanta ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈeðeɾ ˈalβaɾes]; born 28 February 1993) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for América de Cali and the Colombia national team.
Chinese zodiac. The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle. [ 1] In traditional Chinese culture, the Chinese zodiac is very important and exists as a reflection of Chinese philosophy and culture. [ 2]
The Balanda Bviri are an ethnic group living in the South Sudanese states of Western Bahr el Ghazal and Western Equatoria. [ 1] They speak Bviri, one of the Ubangian languages . The Balanda Bviri live in both Western Equatoria (Tambura, Nagero, Namatina, Mopoi, Yangiri, Nadiangere, Kobir Bawo) and Western Bahar El Ghazal (Bazia, Bagari and Dem ...