Buru–Sula–Taliabo languages
The Buru–Sula–Taliabo 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.
| Buru–Sula–Taliabo | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Indonesia |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Glottolog | buru1321[1] |
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 is the fragmentarily attested Hukumina language.
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References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Buru–Sula–Taliabo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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