Bada language

Bada (also Badaʼ) is an Austronesian language spoken in the South Lore district of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Together with Napu and Behoa, it belongs to the Badaic subgroup.[3]

Bada
Native toIndonesia
RegionSulawesi
EthnicityTobada
Native speakers
(6,800 cited 1989)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bhz
Glottologbada1261[2]

Grammar

Bada has the following pronoun sets:[4]

independent enclitic prefixed suffixed
1.sg. kodoʔ (koʔo) -aʔ (-naʔ) ku- -(ng)kuʔ
2.sg. io -koʔ nu- -mu
3.sg. ia --- na- -na
1.pl. inclusive kitaʔ -keʔ ta- -(n)taʔ
1.pl. exclusive kaiʔ -kaʔ ki- -(ng)kiʔ
2.pl. kamiu -komi ni- -mi
3.pl. hera -heʔ ra -nda
gollark: Virtue *signalling* is distinct from actually being virtuous, that's the thing.
gollark: r/crypticpoliticalcommentaryofsomesort
gollark: What a strange ”comic”.
gollark: I need something better than the cheap, bad power line adapter thingies.
gollark: Sorry, internetwork failure.

References

  1. Bada at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bada (Indonesia)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Martens, Michael P. (1989). "The Badaic languages of Central Sulawesi". In James N. Sneddon (ed.), Studies in Sulawesi languages, part 1, 19–53. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya.
  4. Woensdregt, Jacob (1925). Mythen en sagen der Berg-Toradja's van Midden-Selebes, vertaald en van aanteekeningen voorzien. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, 65:3. Weltevreden: Kolff.


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