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Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Mandar (also Andian, Manjar, Mandharsche) is an
Austronesian language spoken by the Mandar ethnic group living in
West Sulawesi province of
Indonesia, 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).[
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It is written in the
Lontara script.
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The ethnic
Mandar people are closely related to three other groups living in South Sulawesi: Bugis, Makassar, and Toraja.
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