Mentawai language

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Mentawai
Behase Mentawei
Spoken in Indonesia
Region Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra (Indonesia)
Total speakers 64,000
Language family Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-1 None
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3 mwv

The Mentawai language is an Austronesian language, spoken by the Mentawai-people of the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra. The dialects of the language include: – Silabu, Sipura – Simalegi, Sakalagan, Saumanganja – North Siberut, South Siberut – Taikaku – Pagai.