Sentence examples for the sama from inspiring English sources

The Sama are also renowned for their visual art.

In Indonesia, the Sama are known by the Buginese term Bajo.

Performances are extended prayers: meditations that move, after great deliberation, into rhythmic chants of the Sama Veda.

Trade has always been an important component of the Sama economy; indeed, the Sama owe their dispersal throughout the southern Philippines and eastern Indonesia largely to their involvement in the regional sea cucumber trade, especially in the 17th 19th century.

The Sama pangongka'an, a gong-and-drum ensemble, plays a prominent role in both ritual and recreational contexts.

"There are ethical violations at every level," said Ms N Sarojini, director of the Sama resource group for women, which recently held a forum on clinical trials.

Buhrmann, a major office supplies distributor in Europe and, through its Corporate Express unit, the United States, said it might bid about 1 billion euros ($855 million) for two Dutch rivals, Royal Ahrend and the Samas Groep, disrupting their planned merger.

However, the most likely sister-clade for the Barito languages is the Sama-Bajaw languages (R . Blust personal communication, 17/3/2009).

We have been reassessing the cognate coding in that area, and have uncovered 17 previously unrecognised loan words in the Sama-Bajaw language Inabaknon.

Because the Austronesian migration to Madagascar and the Sama-Bajaw dispersal may be interrelated, we compare genetic data from recent seafaring populations, such as the Bajo, with the more settled Malagasy.

Moreover, languages of the Sama-Bajaw group, as spoken by the sea nomad Bajo, form a subgroup of the Barito languages of southeast Kalimantan [ 35], although not the closest language subgroup to Malagasy.