Makassar language

Makassar (Basa Mangkasara)
Spoken in	Sulawesi ( Indonesia )
speaker	2.1 million ( SIL , 2000)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages South Sulawesian languages Makassar language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mak

Makassar (also Makasar or Macassar ; ᨅᨔ ᨆᨀᨔᨑ Basa Mangkasara , Basa Mangkasara ) is a language of the Makassars in the Indonesian province of Sulawesi Selatan in the south of the island of Sulawesi . The Makassar language is a member of the Austronesian language family .

Although the Makassar language is now often written with Latin letters , a separate script is also in use, the Lontara , which was also once used to write important documents in Buginese and Mandar , which are two related languages ​​in Sulawesi.

Others

The ISO 639-3 abbreviation for the language is mak; it is not listed in ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 .

Web links

Test Wikipedia on Makassar language

• Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set. omniglot.com (Lontara and Makassar script)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Enrekang at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)