Mentawai language

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Mentawai
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
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: mwv

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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