Austronesian · ISO 639-3 btm
Batak Mandailing Language Saro Mandailing
Batak Mandailing is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1.1 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin and Batak scripts.
Where Batak Mandailing is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Batak Mandailing
Language family
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Sumatran
- Batakic
- Central-Southern Batak
- Southern Batak
- Angkola-Mandailing
- Batak Mandailing
Writing system
Latin and Batak scripts
Related languages
About the Batak Mandailing language
Batak Mandailing (Saro Mandailing) is spoken by about 1.1 million people, which makes it the 440th most spoken language in the world — just behind Aja (Benin) (1.1 million) and ahead of Southern Dagaare (1.1 million). It belongs to the Austronesian language family and, more precisely, to the Angkola-Mandailing group within the Sumatran branch.
Where is Batak Mandailing spoken?
Batak Mandailing is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Indonesia (1.1 million).
Batak Mandailing is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Batak Mandailing 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 Dairi.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 btm.
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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.