Austronesian · ISO 639-3 bts
Batak Simalungun Language Sahap Simalungun
Batak Simalungun 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 Simalungun is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Batak Simalungun
Language family
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Sumatran
- Batakic
- Central-Southern Batak
- Batak Simalungun
Writing system
Latin and Batak scripts
Related languages
About the Batak Simalungun language
Batak Simalungun (Sahap Simalungun) is spoken by about 1.2 million people, which makes it the 418th most spoken language in the world — just behind Batak Dairi (1.2 million) and ahead of Fur (1.2 million). It belongs to the Austronesian language family and, more precisely, to the Central-Southern Batak group within the Sumatran branch.
Where is Batak Simalungun spoken?
Batak Simalungun is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Indonesia (1.2 million).
Batak Simalungun is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Batak Simalungun is written in the Latin and Batak scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Batak Toba, Batak Mandailing and Batak Dairi.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bts.
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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.