BTD ISO 639-3
Batak Dairi
A language of Indonesia
- ISO 639
- btd
- Alternate Names
- Pakpak Dairi
- Population
- 1,200,000 (1991 UBS).
- Location:
- Aceh province: Aceh Singkil regency; North Sumatra province: Dairi, Humbang Hasundutan, Pakpak Barat, Samosir, and Tapanuli Tengah regencies, Sidikalang town area south to coast.
- Language Status
- 6b (Threatened).
- Classification
- Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Northwest Sumatra-Barrier Islands, Batak, Northern
- Dialects
- Dairi, Pakpak. Dairi and Pakpak dialects are sociolinguistically distinct. Lexical similarity: 81% with Batak Karo [btx] (Pakpak dialect) (Woollams 2005).
- Language Use
- Some young people, all adults.
- Language Development
- Grammar. Bible: 1998.
- Language Resources
- OLAC resources in and about Batak Dairi
- Writing
- Batak script [Batk].
- Other Comments
- Christian.
Also Spoken in
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Location: Aceh province: Aceh Singkil regency; North Sumatra province: Dairi, Humbang Hasundutan, Pakpak Barat, Samosir, and Tapanuli Tengah regencies, Sidikalang town area south to coast.
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