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Some languages, like Buginese (five million speakers) and Makassarese (two million speakers), are widely distributed and vigorously used. Many of the languages with much smaller numbers of speakers are also still vigorously spoken, but some languages are almost extinct, because language use of the ethnic population has shifted to the dominant regional language, e.g. in the case of Ponosakan ...
Sample of spoken Cia-Cia, recorded for Wikitongues. Cia-Cia, also known as (South) Buton or Butonese, is an Austronesian language spoken principally around the city of Baubau on the southern tip of Buton island, off the southeast coast of Sulawesi, in Indonesia. [2]
The Dutch linguist K.A. Adelaar showed that they are especially close to Buginese and thus can be included in the South Sulawesi subgroup. [ 3 ] Zobel (2020) also classifies the Badaic languages with Seko as part of a Seko–Badaic group within the South Sulawesi branch.
The Konjo and Selayar language varieties are sometimes considered dialects of Makassarese. As part of the South Sulawesi language family, Makassarese is also closely related to the Bugis, Mandar, and Toraja-SaŹ¼dan languages. [4] In terms of vocabulary, Makassarese is considered the most distinct among the South Sulawesi languages.
South Sulawesi languages: Bugis language, spoken by Bugis in central South Sulawesi and neighbouring provinces. Makassarese language, spoken by Makassarese in southern end of South Sulawesi. Toraja language, spoken by Toraja people in northern highland of South Sulawesi. Mandar language, spoken in West Sulawesi. Philippine languages:
The Northern South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the South Sulawesi languages in the Austronesian language family. They are spoken in an area that stretches from the western peninsula of Sulawesi to the Gulf of Bone, Indonesia. [1] Its most prominent members are Mandar and Toraja.
The province is bordered by Central Sulawesi and West Sulawesi to the north, the Gulf of Bone and Southeast Sulawesi to the east, Makassar Strait to the west, and Flores Sea to the south. The 2010 census estimated the population as 8,032,551, [ 7 ] which makes South Sulawesi the most populous province on the island (46% of the population of ...
Maiwa is an Austronesian language spoken by around 50,000 people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs to the Northern branch of the South Sulawesi subgroup, and is closely related to Duri, Enrekang and Malimpung. [2]