Austronesian language spoken in North Sumatra province in Indonesia
Toba Batak
Hata Batak Toba ᯂᯖ ᯅᯖᯂ᯲ ᯖᯬᯅ
Batak written in Surat Batak (Batak script)
Native to
Indonesia
Region
Samosir Island (2° 30′ N, 99°), and to the east, south, and west of Toba Lake in north Sumatra.
Ethnicity
Toba Batak
Native speakers
1,610,000 (2010 census)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
Batak
Southern
Toba Batak
Writing system
Latin, Batak alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
bbc
Glottolog
bata1289
The distribution of Batak languages in northern Sumatra. Toba Batak is the majority language in the blue-colored areas labeled with its ISO 639-3 code "bbc".A Toba Batak speaker.
Toba Batak (/ˈtoʊbəˈbætək/[2]) is an Austronesian language spoken in North Sumatra province in Indonesia. It is part of a group of languages called Batak. There are approximately 1,610,000 Toba Batak speakers, living to the east, west and south of Lake Toba. Historically it was written using the Batak script, but the Latin script is now used for most writing.
^Toba Batak at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Bauer, Laurie (2007). The Linguistics Student's Handbook. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
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