Buru–Sula languages
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Geographic distribution | Indonesia |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian |
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Glottolog | sula1247 |
The Buru–Sula languages are a group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken on the Buru and Sula Islands in the eastern Moluccas. Buru itself has almost forty thousand speakers, and Sula about twenty thousand.
Classification
The languages are:
- Buru: Ambelau, Buru, Lisela, Moksela (extinct), Hukumina (extinct), Palumata (extinct)
- Sula: Mangole, Sula
The Taliabo languages (Kadai, Padang/Samala, Mananga, Mangei/Soboyo) were once included, but turn out to be Celebic.[1]
References
- ^ Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.
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