Minangkabau in Indonesia

Speakers

4,237,806

Type

Location

Minangkabau in Indonesia

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Minangkabau in Indonesia

Size

4,237,806

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
Comments
Minangkabau is one of local languages (bahasa daerah) in Indonesia

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions

Standardization

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

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

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
West Sumatra Province

Size / Number of users

Number of users

4237806
Source
Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)
Year
2010

Users within total population

1.78000
Less than 10% use the language

PROPORTION

2
Source
Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)
Year
2010

Users within the reference community

More than 50% use the language
Actual percentage
78
Source
Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)
Year
2010

Age distribution of users

977,799
23
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)

Year
2010

Age distribution of users

2,989,742
71
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)

Year
2010
Comments

Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)

Age distribution of users

270,265
6
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)

Year
2010

Generational use

49
51
4,237,806
Reduced among young generations
Source

Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)

Year
2010

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
Result of language mapping in Indonesia conducted by the Agency of Language Development and Cultivation (2019)

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
Stability
Decreasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Stability
Decreasing
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

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

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