Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands languages

Northwest Sumatran
Northwest Sumatran
North Sumatran; Northwest Sumatran – Barrier Islands
Geographic; distribution	Sumatra
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian Northwest Sumatran; ; ;
Glottolog	nort2829

The Northwest Sumatran languages are a group of languages spoken by the Batak and related peoples in the interior of North Sumatra and by the Nias, Mentawai people, and others on the barrier islands (Simeulue, Nias, and Mentawai Islands Regency) off the western coast of Sumatra.

Classification

The languages normally included in North Sumatran are,

Batak languages
Gayo
Enggano (divergent)
Mentawai
Northern Barrier Islands: Nias–Sikule, Simeulue

The Nasal language was discovered in 2008 in Kaur Regency, Bengkulu, Sumatra. Its classification is uncertain.

References

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