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Alas
Alas
Batak Alas
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sumatra
Ethnicity	Alas; Kluet; Singkil;
Native speakers	200,000 (2000 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands Batak Northern Alas; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin; Batak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	btz
Glottolog	bata1292

Alas-Kluet, Alas, or Batak Alas is an Austronesian language of Sumatra. The three dialects, Alas, Kluet, and Singkil (Kade-Kade), may not constitute a single language; Alas may be closer to Karo, and the others closer to Dairi. By linguistic affiliation, Alas–Kluet belongs to the Batak subgroup. Ethnically, however, its speakers generally do not identify as Batak, mostly because of their religion.^[2]

References edit

^ Alas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Akifumi Iwabuchi (1994). The People of the Alas Valley: A Study of an Ethnic Group of Northern Sumatra. Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-827902-7.

Further reading edit

Suhery, D.; Hasnain, S.I. (2018). "Social Contexts of Phonological Contrasts and Indexicality: Variability and Identity among Singkils". The 1st Annual International Conference on Language and Literature (AICLL). Vol. 3. pp. 178–190. doi:10.18502/kss.v3i4.1930. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)

[e18-1] Alas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[iwabuchi-2] Akifumi Iwabuchi (1994). The People of the Alas Valley: A Study of an Ethnic Group of Northern Sumatra. Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-827902-7.

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Alas
Batak Alas
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sumatra
Ethnicity	Alas Kluet Singkil
Native speakers	200,000 (2000 census)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands Batak Northern Alas
Writing system	Latin Batak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`btz`
Glottolog	`bata1292`