Batak Simalungun language

Simalungun
Sahap Simalungun
Native to Indonesia
Region Sumatra (northern)
Ethnicity Batak Simalungun
Native speakers
1.2 million (2000)[1]
Latin, Batak
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bts
Glottolog bata1288[2]

Simalungun, or Batak Simalungun, is an Austronesian language of Sumatra. It is spoken mainly in Simalungun Regency and Pematang Siantar, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

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References

  1. Simalungun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Batak Simalungun". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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