The Nias language is an Austronesian language spoken on Nias Island and the Batu Islands off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. It belongs to the Northwest Sumatran subgroup which also includes Mentawai and the Batak languages. It had about 770000 speakers in 2000. There are three main dialects: northern central and southern.
ISO 639-2 code
nia
ISO 639-3 code
nia
family
Malayo-Polynesian languages, Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages, Northwest Sumatran languages
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