- Mandailing language
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(Batak) Mandailing Spoken in Indonesia Region Sumatra Native speakers 1,100,000 (2000 census) Language family Austronesian- Malayo-Polynesian
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- Northwest Sumatran
- Batak
- Southern Batak
- (Batak) Mandailing
- Southern Batak
- Batak
- Northwest Sumatran
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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
- Mandailing (the people)
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.
Categories: - Malayo-Polynesian
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