Buol language

Buol
Apadu Vuolo
Pronunciation ['apadu 'βuɔʎɔ]
Native to Indonesia
Region Central Sulawesi
Native speakers
 96,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 blf
Glottolog buol1237[2]

Buol (Bual, Bwo’ol, Bwool, Dia) is an Austronesian language spoken in North-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Phonology

Vowels are /a e i o u/.[3] Stress falls on penultimate syllable, with sequence of like vowels counting as one syllable. Consonants are:

pt̪k(ʔ)
bd(dʒ)ɡ
mn̪ŋ
β(s)(h)
rʎ
wj

/dʒ/ occurs in loans. /h/, /s/, /ʔ/ are found in loans and a small number of native words, such as /buahaŋa/ 'k.o. cricket', /sio/ 'nine', /naʔal/ 'bark slippers'.

/β/ only occurs before /u/, but there are near-minimal pairs such as /βuŋo/ 'fruit', /buŋol/ 'leaf'.

/ʎ/ is pronounced [l] after a front vowel, as in [dila] 'tongue'; [] if not preceded, but followed by a front vowel, as in [ae] 'chin'; and [ʎ] elsewhere. However, there is an exception with the sequences /ʎaʎa, ʎoʎa, ʎoʎo/, where the first /ʎ/ is pronounced [l], as in /ʎoʎo/ [loʎo] 'face'.

References

  1. ↑ Buol at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Buol". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Zobel, Erik, "Buol" in K. Alexander Adelaar & Nikolaus Himmelmann, 2005, The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar, pp. 625-648, London, Routledge ISBN 0-7007-1286-0


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