Wolio language

Wolio
Region Sulawesi
Native speakers
 65,000 (2004)[1]
Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wlo
Glottolog woli1241[2]

Wolio is an Austronesian language spoken in and around Baubau on Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs to the Wotu–Wolio branch of the Celebic subgroup.[3][4] Also known as Buton, it is a trade language and the former court language of the Sultan at Baubau. Today it is an official regional language; street signs are written in Wolio using the Arabic script.

Phonology

A dual-language street sign, Jl. Sultan Hasanuddin, in Baubau, depicting both the Indonesian language and Wolio

Stress is on the penultimate syllable. The five vowels are /i e a o u/.

Consonants
LabialApicalLaminalVelarGlottal
pttʃkʔ
ɓɗdʒɡ
mpntɲtʃŋk
mbndɲdʒŋɡ
mnɲŋ
βsh
l, r

/b, d, f/ are found in loans, mostly from Arabic. /β/ is transcribed w, /tʃ/ c. /r/ is a trill.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Wolio at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wolio". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Donohue, Mark. (2004). "The pretenders to the Muna-Buton group." In Bowden, J. and Himmelmann, N. (eds.). Papers in Austronesian subgrouping and dialectology, pp. 21-36. Canberra: Australian National University. (Pacific Linguistics 563)
  4. ↑ Mead, David. (2003). "Evidence for a Celebic supergroup." In Lynch, John (ed.). Issues in Austronesian historical phonology, pp. 115-141. Canberra: Australian National University. (Pacific Linguistics 550)
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