Sula–Buru languages

Sula–Buru
Buru–Sula–Taliabo
Geographic
distribution:
Indonesia
Linguistic classification:

Austronesian

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

Another extinct Buru language may be Hukumina, but that may not have been indigenous to the island.

References

  1. 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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