Mandailing language

Mandailing Language
Saro Mandailing
Native to Indonesia
Region Sumatra
Ethnicity Mandailing people
Native speakers
 1.1 million (2000 census)[1]
Latin, Mandailing
Language codes
ISO 639-3 btm
Glottolog bata1291[2]
Mandailing language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
A Mandailing script, pre-1800s.

Mandailing or Batak Mandailing is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, the northern island of Sumatra. It is spoken mainly in Mandailing Natal Regency, North Padang Lawas Regency, Padang Lawas Regency, and eastern parts of Labuhan Batu Regency, North Labuhan Batu Regency, South Labuhan Batu Regency and northwestern parts of Riau Province. It is written using the Latin script but historically used Batak script.

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References

  1. ↑ Mandailing Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Batak Mandailing". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Kamus Mandailing

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