Simeulue (language)

Simeulue
Spoken in	Simeulue ( Indonesia )
speaker	30,000 (Indonesia) ( SIL ,?)
Linguistic ; classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages Northwest Sumatra Simeulue (language) ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	smr

Simeulue or Mae o is a language spoken on the island of Simeulue off Sumatra . It belongs to the northwest Sumatra branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages within the Austronesian languages .

There are the following dialects:

Defayan: (in Teupah Selatan, Simeulue Timur, Teupah Barat and Teluk Dalam districts)
Simolol (prestige dialect): around Kampung Aie and Simeulue Tengah

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