Mamasa (language)

Mamasa
Spoken in	Sulawesi ( Indonesia )
speaker	100,000 ( SIL , 1991)
Linguistic ; classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages South Sulawesian languages Toraja Mamasa (language) ;
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)

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