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Karo Batak

Austronesian language spoken in North Sumatra, Indonesia
Class type of: Batak Q33012

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
natural language, modern language[4]
Country
Indonesia[3]
Subclass of
Batak
Coordinate location
🗺️ 3.142°, 98.228°, 🗺️ 3.342°, 98.337°, 🗺️ 3.171°, 98.699°
Ethnologue language status
6b Threatened[15]
Indigenous to
Aceh, Sumatra, North Sumatra, Binjai, Medan, Karo, Langkat, Deli Serdang, Karo Batak pople[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+600000[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Karo Batak en Karo language en btx ar كارو باتاك cs jazyk karo batak de Karo fr batak karo fr btx fr karo batak id bahasa Karo id bahasa Batak Karo id btx it lingua karo ja カロ語 ms bahasa Karo ms btx pl język Karo tr btx zh 卡羅方言 zh 卡羅語
🔖 Identifiers · 17
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85071661
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
10889
Ethnologue.com language code
btx
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID
/m/02hwk9d
Glottolog code
bata1293
IETF language tag
btx
ISO 639-3 code
btx
LyricsTranslate ID
language/more-languagesbatak-karo
NL CR AUT ID
ph998443
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007541066605171
Native Land language ID
karo
Show all 17 identifiers +5
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
687976
Statistics Indonesia language code
0018 3
Topic's main category
Category:Karo Batak language
WALS lect code
bkr
Yale LUX ID
concept/ae5fdf33-ec13-4ce7-a990-4b546e8665b0

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🔗 Connections
Indigenous to 9
Sumatra, Aceh, Medan, North Sumatra, Binjai, Deli Serdang, Karo, Langkat +1 more
← Language used 5
Sumatra, Aceh, North Sumatra, Karo Batak pople, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Medan
Instance of 2
natural language, modern language
Country 1
Indonesia
Subclass of 1
Batak
Topic's main category 1
Category:Karo Batak language
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Karo Batak language
← Language of work or name 1
jw.org
← Native language 1
Karo Batak pople
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Summary

Karo Batak is a natural language[1]. It is a type of Batak[2].

Related Entities

Indonesia Sumatra

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . glottolog.org. glottolog.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Pi bot bot · 2026-10-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 19
    Wikipedia languages → ['bbc', 'cs', 'en', 'fr', 'functions', 'gor', 'hr', 'id', 'ig', 'ilo', 'ja', 'kg
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  2. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Country → Indonesia
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