Muna language

Muna
Native to	Sulawesi, Indonesia
Region	Muna Island, Buton Island
Native speakers	(300,000 cited 1989, 2007)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Celebic Muna–Buton Munan Munic Western Muna; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mnb
Glottolog	muna1247[2]

Muna is an Austronesian language spoken principally on the island of Muna and the adjacent (nowthwestern) part of Buton Island, off the southeast coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

The sequences /bu, pu, mbu, mpu/ have trilled allophones [ʙu, ʙ̥u, mʙu, mʙ̥u] in stressed position.^[3]

References

↑ Muna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Muna". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Berg, René van den (1989). A Grammar of the Muna Language. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 139. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.

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[e18-1] Muna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Muna". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] Berg, René van den (1989). A Grammar of the Muna Language. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 139. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.