Mandarese people

Mandarese
Mandar people
ᨔᨘᨀᨘ ᨆᨊᨛᨉᨑᨛ
سوكو ماندار
Traditional Mandar Wedding at Mandar, West Sulawesi, 2011.
Total population
Approximately 1 million
Regions with significant populations
 Indonesia
West Sulawesi565,225
South Sulawesi489,986
South Kalimantan49,322
East Kalimantan33,000
Languages
Mandar, Mamasa, Mamuju, Indonesian
Religion
Islam (predominantly)[1]
Related ethnic groups

The Mandarese are an ethnic group in the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi in Sulawesi. The Mandar language belongs to the Northern subgroup of the South Sulawesi languages group of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. The closest language to Mandar is the Toraja-Sa'dan language.[2]

  1. ^ Martin van Bruinessen (2013). Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam: Explaining the "conservative Turn". p. 147. ISBN 9789814414562. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  2. ^ Toby Alice Volkman (1990). Sulawesi: Island Crossroads of Indonesia. Passport Books. ISBN 978-0-8442-9906-8.

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