| Mandar | |
|---|---|
| Mandar | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sulawesi |
| Ethnicity | Mandar people |
Native speakers | 500,000 (2010 census)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | mdr |
| ISO 639-3 | mdr |
| Glottolog | mand1442 |
Mandar is anAustronesian language spoken by theMandar people living inWest Sulawesi, Indonesia—particularly in the coastal regencies ofMajene andPolewali Mandar. It is written in theLontara script.[1]
The ethnic Mandar are closely related to three other groups living in South Sulawesi: Bugis, Makassar, and Toraja.
| 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 | ||||
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