Badaic languages

{{short description|Subgroup of the Austronesian language family}}

{{Infobox language family

|name = Limola

|region = Sulawesi, Indonesia

|familycolor = Austronesian

|fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3 = South Sulawesi

|fam4 = Limola

|child1 = Bada

|child2 = Behoa

|child3 = Napu

|child4 = Limola

|glotto = limola1260

|glottorefname = Limola

}}

The Limola languages include three closely related Austronesian languages spoken in the North Lore and South Lore districts in Poso Regency, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, viz. Bada (Bada’), Behoa (Besoa), and Napu, and also Limola, spoken in North Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi.{{cite book |last=Mead |first=David |year=2024 |chapter=Sulawesi historical linguistics |editor1=Alexander Adelaar |editor2=Antoinette Schapper |title=The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oso/9780198807353.003.0012 |pages=151–164}} Bada, Besoa and Napu are 80–91% lexically similar and to a great degree mutually intelligible, but their speakers are culturally distinct.Martens, Michael P. (1989). [http://sealang.net/archives/nusa/pdf/nusa-v31-p19-54.pdf "The limola languages of Central Sulawesi".] In James N. Sneddon (ed.), Studies in Sulawesi languages, part 1, 19–53. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya.

Classification

The classification of the Badaic languages has been controversial. While traditionally held to be a branch of the Kaili-Pamona languages,Esser, S. J. 1938. "Talen", in Atlas van Tropische Nederland, Sheet 9b. Amsterdam: Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap.Barr, Donald F., and Sharon G. Barr and C. Salombe. (1979). Languages of Central Sulawesi: checklist, preliminary classification, language maps, wordlists. Ujung Pandang: Hasanuddin University. they share many features with languages of the Seko branch of the South Sulawesi languages and have been reclassified in recent sugrouping proposals as South Sulawesi languages that were strongly influenced by Kaili-Pamona languages.Mead, David. (2003). "Evidence for a Celebic supergroup." In John Lynch (ed.), Issues in Austronesian historical phonology. pp. 115–141. PL-550. Canberra: Australian National University.Laskowske, Tom. (2007). "The Seko languages of South Sulawesi: a reconstruction". In David Mead (ed.), Studies in Philippine languages & cultures: 10-ICAL historical comparative papers, pp. 115–210. Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines and Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Zobel (2020) classifies Badaic with the Seko languages as part of a Seko–Badaic group within the South Sulawesi branch.{{cite journal |last=Zobel |first=Erik |date=2020 |title=The Kaili–Wolio Branch of the Celebic Languages |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/782054 |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=59 |issue=1/2 |pages=297–346 |doi=10.1353/ol.2020.0014 |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|s2cid=235064564 }}

Badaic languages

Classification

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