Austronesian · ISO 639-3 bbc
Batak Toba Language ᯅᯖᯂ᯲ ᯖᯬᯅ
Batak Toba is an Austronesian language spoken by about 2.5 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin and Batak scripts.
Where Batak Toba is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Batak Toba
Language family
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Sumatran
- Batakic
- Central-Southern Batak
- Southern Batak
- Batak Toba
Writing system
Latin and Batak scripts
Related languages
About the Batak Toba language
Batak Toba (ᯅᯖᯂ᯲ ᯖᯬᯅ) is spoken by about 2.5 million people, which makes it the 276th most spoken language in the world — just behind Chadian Arabic (2.6 million) and ahead of Central Bikol (2.5 million). It belongs to the Austronesian language family and, more precisely, to the Southern Batak group within the Sumatran branch.
Where is Batak Toba spoken?
Batak Toba is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Indonesia (2.6 million).
Batak Toba is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Batak Toba 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 Mandailing, Batak Simalungun and Batak Dairi.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bbc.
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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.