Batak Simalungun language

Simalungun
	Sahap Simalungun
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sumatra (northern)
Ethnicity	Batak Simalungun
Native speakers	1.2 million (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Nuclear MP Northwest Sumatran Batak Southern (Tobaic) Simalungun; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin, Batak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bts
Glottolog	bata1288[2]

Simalungun, or Batak Simalungun, is an Austronesian language of Sumatra. It is spoken mainly in Simalungun Regency and Pematang Siantar, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

External links

Indonesian-Simalungun Dictionary
David Goldsworthy's collection of Music of Indonesia and Malaysia archived with Paradisec includes open access recordings in Batak Simalungun.

↑ Simalungun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Batak Simalungun". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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