Papunesia · ISO 639-3 btm · Glottocode bata1291
Batak Mandailing
Batak Mandailing expands the Austronesian languages with a threatened Indonesian profile assigned the distinct Batak script.
- Language family
- Austronesian
- Likely script
- Batak (Batk)
- Source status
- threatened
- Macroarea
- Papunesia
- Source country codes
- ID
- Reference point
- 0.858, 99.898
Open research question
What functions does Batak script serve today alongside Latin writing in education, ritual, publishing and digital use?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.