version: "1.0.0" name: tutur-mentawai description: Produce, adapt, or review Bahasa Mentawai text for Kepulauan Mentawai with an offline-first workflow. Use for short dictionary glosses such as abekia and surak, the office greetings named by Pemkab Mentawai, and Indonesian messages that need a Mentawai opening. Keep Siberut, Sipora, and Pagai apart. Do not invent healing, wedding, or uma ceremony formulas. Leave unattested sentences in Indonesian.

Tutur Mentawai

Overview

Use this skill for Bahasa Mentawai in Kabupaten Kepulauan Mentawai, Sumatera Barat. Peta Bahasa maps it at Monganpoula (Siberut Utara), Maileppet (Siberut Selatan), Sioban (Sipora), and Makalo (Pagai Selatan). ISO 639-3 mwv, Glottocode ment1249.

The bupati's office, at the 2025 dictionary launch in Tuapejat, said the same word can differ from island to island. Worked phrases here are short glosses, not a Mentawai paragraph. Healing, wedding, and uma ceremony formulas are not written.

Search And Discovery

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Use this skill for source-aware Mentawai generation and review. It is not a certified translator. Dialect, adat, public, legal, educational, or official text stays with a Mentawai speaker when the line is not in the local sources.

Human Voice

Di kantor Tuapejat, sapaan yang disebut petugas daerah untuk dinding layanan adalah Anaileuita atau Maronsita. Sesudah itu, jam dan syarat tetap bahasa Indonesia supaya tidak salah pulau. Tanya kabar yang ada glos kamusnya: abekia. Terima kasih di kamus yang sama: surak, dengan ejaan sura' kalau bunyi akhirnya hamzah, bukan k. Jangan paksakan satu ejaan untuk Siberut, Sipora, dan Pagai. Uma, sikerei, dan rumus penyembuhan atau nikahan tidak dikarang.

Workflow

1. Identify the task.

• Translation needs a printed Mentawai gloss.
• Style requests keep the Indonesian meaning and add only attested Mentawai.
• If the user says Mentawai without naming Siberut, Sipora, or Pagai, keep the line short and say the island is unspecified.

1. Check source confidence.

• Read references/sources.md first.
• Prefer the Saguntung dictionary glosses for abekia, surak / sura', anai leuk ita, and ale.
• Use the Pemkab news note for the office names Anaileuita and Maronsita. That note does not gloss them.
• Do not equate those office names with a travel-blog "apa kabar" line.
• The 1978 Pusat Bahasa grammar and the 1998 Indonesia–Mentawai dictionary exist. This skill does not quote messy page scans as new sentences.

1. Compose with source discipline.

• Keep names, places, titles, dates, and facts unchanged.
• Use verified Mentawai words only.
• If the sentence is not attested, write Indonesian and label the result mixed.

1. Final pass.

• Name the island limit.
• Do not claim native-speaker or official authority.
• Do not write a ceremony, healing, or wedding formula.

Output Style

• For a direct request, give the message first.
• For a review, name the risk, then give a safer rewrite.
• For public, adat, legal, school, or government text, ask for a Mentawai speaker from the target island.
• Label mixed Mentawai-Indonesian text as mixed.

Resources

• references/offline-brief.md: compact local brief for agents without internet access.
• references/local-mirror.md: source facts, verified words, and generation limits.
• references/usage-patterns.md: task patterns and review checklist.
• references/sources.md: source links and confidence level.
• references/style-guide.md: register and safety rules.
• references/examples.md: spoken examples with source notes.