Simeulue (language)
Simeulue | ||
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Spoken in |
Simeulue ( Indonesia ) | |
speaker | 30,000 (Indonesia) ( SIL ,?) | |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simeulue at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)