Mandailing language

Mandailing language
(Batak) Mandailing
Spoken in Indonesia
Region Sumatra
Native speakers 1,100,000  (2000 census)
Language family
Writing system Latin alphabet, Batak script
Language codes
ISO 639-3 btm

Mandailing or Batak Mandailing is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, the northern island of Sumatra. The language pertains to the Malayo-Polynesian of Austronesian languages. It is written using the Latin alphabet but historically used Batak script.

See also

Sources

  • (English) Adelaar, Alexander, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar: A Historical Perspective, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, pp. 1–42, Routledge Language Family Series, Londres: Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-7007-1286-0
  • (Indonesian) Siregar, Ahmad Samin, Kamus Bahasa Angola/Mandailing Indonesia, Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan Dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan Dan Kebudayaan, 1977.

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