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:
- South Siberut
- Madobat
- Salappa
- Ulubaga
- Sipora
- Bariulou
- Bosua
- Sioban
- North Pagai
- Pasapuat
- Silabu
- Saumanganya
- South Pagai
- Boriai
- Bulasat
- Sikakap
References
- 1 2 Mentawai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mentawai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Links
- Syamsir Arifin; Nasroel Malano; Yuslina Kasim. 1992. Fonologi bahasa Mentawai. Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaa.
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Mentawai language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
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