Austronesian · ISO 639-3 btd
Batak Dairi Language Kata Pakpak
Batak Dairi is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin and Batak scripts.
Where Batak Dairi is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Batak Dairi
Language family
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Sumatran
- Batakic
- Northern Batak
- Batak Dairi
Writing system
Latin and Batak scripts
Related languages
About the Batak Dairi language
Batak Dairi (Kata Pakpak) is spoken by about 1.2 million people, which makes it the 417th most spoken language in the world — just behind Bakhtiari (1.2 million) and ahead of Batak Simalungun (1.2 million). It belongs to the Austronesian language family and, more precisely, to the Northern Batak group within the Sumatran branch.
Where is Batak Dairi spoken?
Batak Dairi is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Indonesia (1.2 million).
Batak Dairi is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Batak Dairi is written in the Latin and Batak scripts. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Batak Toba, Batak Simalungun and Batak Mandailing.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 btd.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.