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Mentawai

Austronesian language, spoken by the Mentawai-people of the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra
Class type of: Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands Q13365

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
natural language, modern language[4]
Country
Indonesia[3]
Subclass of
Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
Ethnologue language status
5 Developing[9]
Indigenous to
West Sumatra, Sumatra[7][8]
Native label
bahasa Mentawai[6]
Writing system
Latin script[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Mentawai en Mentawai language en mwv de Mentawaisprache fi mentawain kieli id Mentawi id bahasa Mentawai id Mentawei it lingua mentawai ja メンタワイ語 pl język mentawai ru ментавай th ภาษาเม็นตาไว tr mwv uk Ментавайська мова
🔖 Identifiers · 14
Ethnologue.com language code
mwv
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID
/m/09r98w
Glottolog code
ment1249
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Mentawai
IETF language tag
mwv
ISO 639-3 code
mwv
J9U entity ID
987007565557405171
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
843911
POSIX locale identifier
mwv
Quora topic ID
Mentawai
Statistics Indonesia language code
0027 2
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Topic's main category
Category:Mentawai language
WALS lect code
mnt

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🔗 Connections
← Language used 3
Sumatra, West Sumatra, Siberut Island
Indigenous to 2
Sumatra, West Sumatra
Instance of 2
language, modern language
Country 1
Indonesia
Subclass of 1
Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
Topic's main category 1
Category:Mentawai language
Writing system 1
Latin script
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Mentawai language
← Language of work or name 1
jw.org
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Summary

Mentawai is a natural language[1]. Mentawai is a type of Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands[2].

Related Entities

Indonesia Sumatra

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · عُثمان · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → natural language, modern language
    "Changed claim: Instance of: natural language"
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Indigenous to → West Sumatra, Sumatra
    Topic's main category → Category:Mentawai language
    Ethnologue language status → 5 Developing
    Instance of → natural language, modern language
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007565557405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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