Makassar language
Makassar (Basa Mangkasara) | ||
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Spoken in |
Sulawesi ( Indonesia ) | |
speaker | 2.1 million ( SIL , 2000) | |
Linguistic classification |
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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
- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set. omniglot.com (Lontara and Makassar script)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enrekang at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)