Tolaki language

Tolaki
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sulawesi
Native speakers	330,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Celebic Bungku–Tolaki Western West Coast Tolaki; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lbw
Glottolog	tola1247[2]

Tolaki (To'olaki) is the major language of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is an Austronesian language of the Celebic branch.

Phonology

Consonants[3][4]
		Labial	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	ɡ
	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᵑɡ
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Fricative		β	s		h
Lateral			l
Trill			r

/b/ and /d/ are optionally realized as imlosives [ɓ] and [ɗ].

gollark: Or maybe our brains' language bits *are* actually hardwired for SVO-ish trees.

gollark: I imagine humans might be able to deal with it if you raised them with stacklangs from birth.

gollark: If you're sure.

gollark: *Your* skull? Wow, you really aren't aware of GTech™ operations.

gollark: Alternatively, bound variables and make excessively large stacks not idiomatic.

Tolaki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tolaki". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Zalili Sailan and La Ode Sidu Marafad and Gusarmin Sofyan and Sahlan, and Hamuni. 1995. Tata Bahasa Tolaki. Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.
Mead, David. 1998. Proto–Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax . PhD dissertation. Houston: Rice University, p. 19. hdl:1911/19290

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