Ngadju

Or Nga·ju

[uhng-gah-joo]

noun

plural

Ngadjus ,

plural

Ngadju .

1. a member of any of several Dayak tribes of southern Borneo.

2. the Austronesian language of the Ngadju.

Example Sentences

Among the Oloh Ngadju of Borneo, when a sick man is supposed to be suffering from the assaults of a ghost, puppets of dough or rice-meal are made and thrown under the house as substitutes for the patient, who thus rids himself of the ghost.

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