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Mentawai (also known as Mentawei and Mentawi) are the native people of the Mentawai Islands province West Sumatra Indonesia. They live a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the coastal and rainforest environments of the islands. The Mentawai population is estimated to be about 64000. The Mentawai language belongs to the Austronesian language family.

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