Alternate Names: Manadonese Malay, Minahasan Malay
Dialects: None known. Reportedly most similar to North Moluccan Malay ,. Also similar to Sri Lankan Malay ,. A member of macrolanguage Malay ,.
Status Notes: An important, growing lingua franca in many parts of Sulawesi.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 850,000 (2001). L2 users: 1,500,000. In North Sulawesi.
Language Use: Also use Indonesian [ind]. Used as L2 by Bantik [bnq].
Language Development: Dictionary. Bible portions: 2003–2012.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Indonesia
Other Comments: Influences from Portuguese , and Ternate ,. Christian, Muslim.