ISO 639-3 · mwvmwv
Austronesian family
Mentawai
bahasa Mentawai
Mentawai is a language of the Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia. Wikidata describes it as “Austronesian language, spoken by the Mentawai-people of the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
mwv- Glottocode
ment1249- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- Wikipedia
- 25 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
3levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Mentawai · bahasa Mentawai |
|---|---|
| Also called | Mentawai language, mwv |
| Written in | Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Mentawai
The branches above Mentawai, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Indonesia
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalcmnMandarin ChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.07 bn1 · NationalcmnStandard ChineseSino-Tibetan · 897.1 maraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeindIndonesianAustronesian · 199 m1 · NationaljavJavaneseAustronesian · 84.3 m4 · EducationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialmsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mnanSouthern MinSino-Tibetan · 48.3 m6a · VigoroushakHakka ChineseSino-Tibetan · 48.2 m5 · Developing