Mentawai language
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| Mentawai | ||
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| Spoken in: | Indonesia | |
| Region: | Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra (Indonesia) | |
| Total speakers: | 64,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian Sunda-Sulawesi (North) Sumatran Mentawai |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | mwv | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Mentawai language is an Austronesian language, spoken by the Mentawai-people of the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra. The dialects of the language include: Simalegi, Sakalagan, Silabu, Taikaku, Saumanganja, North Siberut, South Siberut, Sipura, Pagai.
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