Sula–Buru languages
| Sula–Buru | |
|---|---|
| Buru–Sula–Taliabo | |
| Geographic distribution: | Indonesia |
| Linguistic classification: |
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| Glottolog: | buru1321[1] |
The Sula–Buru 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: Buru, Lisela, Palumata (extinct), Moksela (extinct)
- Sula: Sula, Mangole
- Taliabo (Kadai, Padang/Samala, Mananga, Mangei/Soboyo)
Another extinct Buru language may be Hukumina, but that may not have been indigenous to the island.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Buru–Sula–Taliabo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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