Mentawai (language)

Mentawai
Spoken in	Mentawai Islands ( Indonesia )
speaker	58,000 (Indonesia) ( SIL , 2000)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages Northwest Sumatra Mentawai (language)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mwv

Mentawai is on the front of Sumatra located Mentawai Islands by the people of the Mentawai spoken language. It belongs to the northwest Sumatra branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages within the Austronesian languages .

Syamsir Arifin, et al. (1992) give 12 dialects:

• South Siberut
  • Madobat
  • Salappa
  • Ulubaga
• Sipora
  • Bariulou
  • Bosua
  • Sioban
• North Pagai
  • Pasapuat
  • Silabu
  • Saumanganya
• South Pagai
  • Boriai
  • Bulasat
  • Sika cap

literature

• Syamsir Arifin; Nasroel malano; Yuslina Kasim. 1992. Fonologi bahasa Mentawai . Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaa.

Individual evidence

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