Sula–Buru languages
| Sula–Buru | |
|---|---|
| Buru–Sula–Taliabo | |
| Geographic distribution | Indonesia |
| Linguistic classification |
Austronesian
|
| Glottolog | buru1321[1] |
The Sula–Buru 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.
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 may be Hukumina, but it may not have been indigenous to the island, but a Buton language.
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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