ISO 639-3 · niania
Austronesian family
Nias
Li Niha
Nias is a language of the Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia. Wikidata counts about 825,768 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
nia- Glottocode
nias1242- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- Centre point
- 1.30, 97.40
- Wikipedia
- 36 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
3levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Nias · Li Niha |
|---|---|
| Also called | Nias language, nia |
| All speakers | 825,768 |
| 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 Nias
The branches above Nias, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
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