Mandarese people
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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]
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Total population | |
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Approximately 1 million | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Indonesia | |
West Sulawesi | 565,225 |
South Sulawesi | 489,986 |
South Kalimantan | 49,322 |
East Kalimantan | 33,000 |
Languages | |
Mandar, Mamasa, Mamuju, Indonesian | |
Religion | |
Islam (predominantly)[1] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
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