| Mentawai | ||
|---|---|---|
| Behase Mentawei | ||
| Spoken in | Indonesia | |
| Region | Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra (Indonesia) | |
| Total speakers | 64,000 | |
| Language family | Austronesian | |
| 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: – Silabu, Sipura – Simalegi, Sakalagan, Saumanganja – North Siberut, South Siberut – Taikaku – Pagai.
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