Mandar (also Andian, Manjar, Mandharsche) is an
Austronesian language
The Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). They are spoken b ...
spoken by the Mandar ethnic group living in
West Sulawesi province of
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
, especially in the coastal regencies of
Majene and
Polewali Mandar, 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 Lontara script (), also known as the Bugis script, Bugis-Makassar script, or Urupu Sulapa’ Eppa’ "four-cornered letters", is one of Indonesia's traditional scripts developed in the South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi region. The script is ...
.
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The ethnic Mandar people are closely related to three other groups living in South Sulawesi: Bugis, Makassar, and Toraja.
]
Phonology
* Sounds /b, d, ɡ, dʒ/ may also be heard as lenited sounds as , ɾ, ɣ, ʒin intervocalic positions.
References
Languages of Indonesia
South Sulawesi languages
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