Mandar (also Andian, Manjar, Mandharsche) is an
Austronesian language spoken by the Mandar ethnic group living in
West Sulawesi
West Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Barat) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the western side of Sulawesi island. It covers an area of 16,787.18 km2, and its capital is Mamuju. The 2010 Census recorded a population of 1,158,651, while ...
province of
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
, especially in the coastal regencies of
Majene and
Polewali Mandar
Polewali Mandar is one of the five regencies in West Sulawesi province of Indonesia. It borders on the regencies of Mamasa in the North, Majene in the West and Pinrang regency of South Sulawesi in the East. It covers an area of 2,074.76 km2 an ...
, as well as in a few settlements in the islands of
Pangkep District (also known as the Spermonde Archipelago) and
Ujung Lero, a small peninsula near
Pare-Pare).
It is written in the
Lontara script.
[
The ethnic ]Mandar people
The Mandarese are an ethnic group in the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi in Sulawesi. The Mandar language belongs to the Northern subgroup of the South Sulawesi languages group of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language f ...
are closely related to three other groups living in South Sulawesi: Bugis, Makassar, and Toraja.
References
External links
Mandar alphabet and pronunciation
at ''Omniglot''
*http://unicode-table.com/en/sections/buginese/
Languages of Indonesia
South Sulawesi languages
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