Alas-Kluet, Alas, or Batak Alas is an
Austronesian language of
Sumatra. The three dialects, Alas, Kluet, and Singkil (Kade-Kade), may not constitute a single language; Alas may be closer to
Karo, and the others closer to
Dairi. By
linguistic affiliation, Alas–Kluet belongs to the
Batak subgroup. Ethnically, however, its speakers generally do not identify as
Batak, mostly because of their religion.[2]
^Alas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Akifumi Iwabuchi (1994). The People of the Alas Valley: A Study of an Ethnic Group of Northern Sumatra. Clarendon Press.
ISBN0-19-827902-7.
Further reading
Suhery, D.; Hasnain, S.I. (2018). "Social Contexts of Phonological Contrasts and Indexicality: Variability and Identity among Singkils". The 1st Annual International Conference on Language and Literature (AICLL). Vol. 3. pp. 178–190.
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