Papunesia · ISO 639-3 btd · Glottocode bata1294
Batak Dairi
Batak Dairi brings a threatened Austronesian language with a distinct Batak script assignment into the Papunesian selection.
- Language family
- Austronesian
- Likely script
- Batak (Batk)
- Source status
- threatened
- Macroarea
- Papunesia
- Source country codes
- ID
- Reference point
- 2.514, 98.243
Open research question
What present use of the Batak script, Latin writing practices and learning pathways is documented?
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.