Mentawai in Indonesia

Speakers

1.000 to 9.999

Type

Location

Mentawai in Indonesia

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Mentawai in Indonesia

Size

1.000 to 9.999

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
Mentawai District, West Sumatera Province
Comments
Mentawai is one of local languages (bahasa daerah) in Indonesia

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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Video

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Audio

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Documentation: descriptions

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
Mentawai Regency, West Sumatera Province

Size / Number of users

Source
Mentawai vitality research report conducted by the Agency of Language Development and Cultivation (2021)
Year
2021

Users within total population

Less than 1% use the language
Source
Mentawai vitality research report conducted by the Agency of Language Development and Cultivation (2021)
Year
2021

Users within the reference community

More than 50% use the language
Source
Mentawai vitality research report conducted by the Agency of Language Development and Cultivation (2021)
Year
2021
Comments
This number is percentage of users within Mentawai regency population.
Mentawai is spoken mostly in Mentawai Regency, West Sumatera Province, especially in three big islands: Sikakap, Siberut, and Sipora. Other community who lives in Mentawai District do not understand and use Mentawai because of the difficult of Mentawai's vocabulary.

Age distribution of users

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percentage of members of young generations (< 15)

Age distribution of users

0
0
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)

Age distribution of users

0
0
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)

Generational use

0
0
0
Reduced among young generations

Educational attainment

No education
Early childhood education
Primary education
Lower secondary education
Higher secondary education
Tertiary education

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Craft and related trades workers
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Services and sales workers
Clerical support workers
Technicians and associate professionals
Professionals
Managers

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
The Mentawai vitality research report conducted by the Agency of Language Development and Cultivation (2021)
Comments
Mentawai is spoken in Sikakap, Siberut, and Sipora islands, Mentawai Regency, West Sumatera Province

Economic dimension

Economic scope
  • Quinary sector
  • Quaternary sector
  • Tertiary sector
  • Secondary sector
  • Primary sector
  • Language not used

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Comments

The use of Mentawai in private domain is stable
(Source: The Mentawai vitality research report conducted by the Agency of Language Development and Cultivation, 2021)

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Comments

The use of Mentawai in everyday domain is stable
(Source: The Mentawai vitality research report conducted by the Agency of Language Development and Cultivation, 2021)

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use
Comments
The Mentawai speakers use Indonesian in formal education

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Comments
Mentawai tends to be not used in public healthcare.

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Completion