Ethnicity Mandar people ISO 639-2 mdr | Native speakers 480,000 (2000 census) | |
Language family AustronesianMalayo-PolynesianNuclear MPSouth SulawesiMandar | ||
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 Pangkep District (also known as the Spermonde Archipelago) and Ujung Lero, a small peninsula near Pare-Pare).
It is written in the Lontara (Buginese) script.
The ethnic Mandar people are closely related to three other groups living in South Sulawesi: Bugis, Makassar, and Toraja.
References
Mandar language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA