Mandar language

Mandar
Mandar
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sulawesi
Ethnicity	Mandar people
Native speakers	480,000 (2000 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian South Sulawesi Northern Mandar; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-2	mdr
ISO 639-3	mdr
Glottolog	mand1442

Mandar (also Andian, Manjar, Mandharsche) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Mandar ethnic group living in West Sulawesi province of Indonesia, especially in the coastal regencies of Majene and Polewali Mandar, as well as in a few settlements in the islands of (also known as the Spermonde Archipelago) and , a small peninsula near Pare-Pare).^{[citation needed]}

It is written in the Lontara script.^[1]

The ethnic Mandar people are closely related to three other groups living in South Sulawesi: Bugis, Makassar, and Toraja.

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Mandar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

External links[]

Mandar alphabet and pronunciation at Omniglot
http://unicode-table.com/en/sections/buginese/

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[e18-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Mandar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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