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ISO 639-3 · btmbtm
Austronesian family

Mandailing

Mandailing is a language of the Batak branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia. Wikidata counts about 1.1 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Batak language spoken by the Mandailing Batak people”.

6b · ThreatenedBatk1.1 m
At a glance
ISO 639-3
btm
Glottocode
bata1291
Centre point
0.86, 99.90
Wikipedia
23 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
4levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level

Facts

NameMandailing
Also calledMandailing language, btm, Mandailiang, Saro Mandailing, Mandailiang language
All speakers1,100,000
Written inBatak

Vitality

EGIDS 6b Threatened6b

Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.

Other languages at this level
family tree

From Austronesian to Mandailing

The branches above Mandailing, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.