 Traditional Mandar Wedding at Mandar, West Sulawesi, 2011. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 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[1] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
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]
- ^ Martin van Bruinessen (2013). Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam: Explaining the "conservative Turn". p. 147. ISBN 9789814414562. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ Toby Alice Volkman (1990). Sulawesi: Island Crossroads of Indonesia. Passport Books. ISBN 978-0-8442-9906-8.