Mandailing Batak or Mandailing is an Austronesian language spoken in Sumatra, the northern island of Indonesia.
Mandailing tu sigama pe so lalu madung donok tu Ujung Gading di angan-angan pe so lalu laing tungkus abit partinggal English To Sigama was not up It's close to Ujung Gading What not even in the imagination Keep the memorable cloth Some of the literary milestones that developed in the colonial period include: In addition to Mandailing Angkola's literary language, it is important to note the growth of Malay-language Indonesian literature adopting local color: for example, the novel Azab dan Sengsara (1921) written by Merari Siregar.
This novel includes contextual customs and cultures such as forced marriage, inheritance, kinship relations, and the local traditions of Mandailing-Angkola.
[3] Contemporary Mandailing literature is no longer developed since pre-independence, as the changing national education curriculum using the national language by itself erodes the use of Mandailing languages.
[3] Lyrics and musical dramas in the Mandailing language include: Pangaduan Lubis proposes that Mandailing has five registers, each having a distinct vocabulary:[4] Examples of vocabulary: In the past, the Mandailing people also had a particular communication tool or kind of language called Hata bulung-bulung ('foliage language').