Mandar (also Andian, Manjar, Mandharsche) is an
Austronesian language spoken by the Mandar ethnic group living in
West Sulawesi province of
Indonesia
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, especially in the coastal regencies of
Majene and
Polewali Mandar, as well as in a few settlements in the islands of
Pangkep District (also known as the Spermonde Archipelago) and
Ujung Lero, a small peninsula near
Pare-Pare
Parepare is a city (''kota'') in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, located on the southwest coast of Sulawesi, about north of the provincial capital of Makassar. A port town, it is one of the major population centers of the Bugis people. The city had a p ...
).
It is written in the
Lontara script.
[
The ethnic Mandar people are closely related to three other groups living in South Sulawesi: Bugis, Makassar, and Toraja.
]
References
External links
Mandar alphabet and pronunciation
at ''Omniglot''
*http://unicode-table.com/en/sections/buginese/
Languages of Indonesia
South Sulawesi languages
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