Mandar (language)

Mandar
Spoken in	Sulawesi ( Indonesia )
speaker	480,000 ( SIL , 2000)
Linguistic ; classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages South Sulawesian languages Mandar (language) ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mdr

Mandar (also Andian, Manjar, Mandharsche) is an Austronesian spoken by the Mandar people in South Sulawesi and the neighboring regions of Majene and Polewali Mandar as well as in some settlements on the islands of Pangkep and Ujung Lero (near Pare-Pare ) Language . Mandar was originally written with the Lontara script and is closely related to the Toraja Sa'dan .

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