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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 ...
The Proto-South-Sulawesi vowel *ɨ is a reflex of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) *ə. It is only preserved in Buginese, in all other languages it mostly became a (but under certain circumstances also i, u, e, and rarely o).
The Gorontalo language (also called Hulontalo) is a language spoken in Gorontalo Province, Sulawesi, Indonesia by the Gorontalo people. [2] With around one million speakers (2000 census), it is a major language of northern Sulawesi. [3] Considerable lexical influence comes from Malay, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, [4] and the North Halmahera ...
Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesian: Sulawesi Tenggara, often abbreviated to Sultra), is a province on the island of Sulawesi, forming the southeastern peninsula of that island, together with a number of substantial offshore islands such as Buton, Muna, Kabaena and Wawonii (formerly called Wowoni), together with many smaller islands.
Sulawesi (/ ˌ s uː l ə ˈ w eɪ s i / SOO-lə-WAY-see), [1] also known as Celebes (/ ˈ s ɛ l ɪ b iː z, s ə ˈ l iː b iː z / SEL-ib-eez, sə-LEE-beez), [2] is an island in Indonesia.One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago.
The province of Southeast Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tenggara) in Indonesia is divided into fifteen regencies (kabupaten) and two cities (kota), which together are subdivided in turn administratively into 219 districts (kecamatan). The districts of Southeast Sulawesi, with the regency or city each falls into, are as follows:
West Sulawesi (Indonesian: Sulawesi Barat) is a province of Indonesia. It borders the provinces of South Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi to the east, Makassar Strait to the west, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The province also shares maritime borders with East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan to the west.
List of districts of North Sulawesi: 171 72 List of districts of Central Sulawesi: 176 73 List of districts of South Sulawesi: 311 74 List of districts of Southeast Sulawesi: 222 75 List of districts of Gorontalo: 77 76 List of districts of West Sulawesi: 69 81 List of districts of Maluku: 118 82 List of districts of North Maluku: 118 91 List ...