Mentawai language

Mentawai
Behase Mentawei
Native to West Sumatra, Indonesia
Region Mentawai Islands
Native speakers
 58,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mwv
Glottolog ment1249[2]

The Mentawai language is an Austronesian language, spoken by the Mentawai-people of the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra.

Dialects

According to Ethnologue, Mentawai dialects include: Silabu, Sipura – Simalegi, Sakalagan, Saumanganja – North Siberut, South Siberut – Taikaku – Pagai.[1]

Syamsir Arifin, et al. (1992) list twelve dialects of Mentawai:

References

  1. 1 2 Mentawai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mentawai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Mentawai language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator


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