English Dictionary

tribelet

名詞

A small tribe of Native Americans, especially a small independent group of Native California people who shared a language and usually comprised one principal village, or several in close proximity, plus smaller resource-gathering camps and territories.

日本語の意味

小さな部族、特に先住アメリカンの中でも、独立した小規模なグループや部族を指す。 / 通常、主要な村とその周辺の小規模な資源採集用キャンプや領域を含む集落体系を持つ。

During the summer, the tribelet moved its camps to follow salmon runs along the river.

夏の間、その小さなカリフォルニア先住民の部族は川沿いのサケの回遊に合わせて野営地を移動しました。

意味（1）

A small tribe of Native Americans, especially a small independent group of Native California people who shared a language and usually comprised one principal village, or several in close proximity, plus smaller resource-gathering camps and territories.

Kroeber’s emphasis on the small scale of indigenous California social organizations led him to attach the diminutive -let to the anthropologically normative term tribe.

意味（2）

A small tribal society in another part of the world.

[…] if each tribelet was linguistically quite independent, this would have made communication in the New World a matter of the utmost difficulty for the [enslaved Africans], who would have been far more dependent than otherwise on the entirely new language that had to be learned.

tribelets （ plural ）