Mentawai (language)
Mentawai | ||
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Spoken in |
Mentawai Islands ( Indonesia ) | |
speaker | 58,000 (Indonesia) ( SIL , 2000) | |
Linguistic classification |
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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:
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South Siberut
- Madobat
- Salappa
- Ulubaga
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Sipora
- Bariulou
- Bosua
- Sioban
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North Pagai
- Pasapuat
- Silabu
- Saumanganya
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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
- ↑ Mentawai at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)