Mamasa (language)
Mamasa | ||
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Spoken in |
Sulawesi ( Indonesia ) | |
speaker | 100,000 ( SIL , 1991) | |
Linguistic classification |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
mqi |
Mamasa is a Toraja language spoken along the Mamasa River and in the Polewali Mandar administrative district in Sulawesi . It belongs to the Austronesian language family .
The following dialects can be distinguished:
- Mamasa Utara (North Mamasa)
- Mamasa Tengah (Central Mamasa)
- Pattae '(Mamasa Selatan (South Mamasa), Patta' Binuang, Binuang, Tae ', Binuang-Paki-Batetanga-Anteapi)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mamasa at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)