半はん部ぶ族ぞく

noun

half tribe

Anthropological or historical term for a social group that is considered a partial or smaller subdivision of a tribe. Rare in everyday Japanese; mainly encountered in academic or descriptive contexts.

• その地ち域いきには、いくつかの半はん部ぶ族ぞくが点てん在ざいしている。

  Several half tribes are scattered across that region.