| Mandar | |
|---|---|
| Mandar ᨆᨊᨛᨉᨑᨛ | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | West Sulawesi South Sulawesi |
| Ethnicity | Mandar people |
Native speakers | 500,000 (2010 census)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Latin Lontara | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | mdr |
| ISO 639-3 | mdr |
| Glottolog | mand1442 |
 Map showing the distribution of the South Sulawesi languages in Sulawesi and Kalimantan, Mandar language in number 16. | |
Mandar is an Austronesian language spoken by the Mandar people living in provinces of West Sulawesi and South Sulawesi, Indonesia—particularly in the coastal regencies of Majene and Polewali Mandar. It is written in the Lontara script but now is also written in Latin script.[1]
The ethnic Mandar are closely related to three other groups living in South Sulawesi: Bugis, Makassar, and Toraja.
Phonology
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
- Sounds /b, d, ɡ, dʒ/ may also be heard as lenited sounds as [v, ɾ, ɣ, ʒ] in intervocalic positions.
References
- Mandar at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- Muthalib, Abdul (1977). Kamus bahasa Mandar-Indonesia. Jakarta: Pusat Bahasa.
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