Bambam language

{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia}}

{{Infobox language

|name = Bambam

|nativename = Pitu Ulunna Salu

|states = Indonesia

|region = Sulawesi

|speakers = {{sigfig|42,100|1}}

|date = 2010

|ref = e25

|familycolor = Austronesian

|fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3 = South Sulawesi

|fam4 = Northern

|fam5 = Pitu Ulunna Salu

|iso3 = ptu

|glotto=bamb1270

|glottorefname=Bambam

}}

Bambam (also: Pitu Ulunna Salu) is an Austronesian language of West Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is spoken in the Mambi and Tabang districts of Mamasa Regency, and in the Matangnga district of Polewali Mandar Regency.{{cite thesis |last=Campbell |first=Philip J. |year=1989 |title=Some Aspects of Pitu Ulunna Salu Grammar: A Typological Approach |type=MA thesis |publisher=University of Texas at Arlington }} Together with Aralle-Tabulahan, Ulumanda', Pannei and Dakka, Bambam belongs to the Pitu Ulunna Salu languages, which form a subbranch within the Northern branch of the South Sulawesi subgroup.{{cite book |last1=Friberg |first1=Timothy |last2=Laskowske |first2=Thomas V. |year=1989 |chapter=South Sulawesi languages |editor=J.N. Sneddon |title=Studies in Sulawesi linguistics part 1 |pages=1–17 |series=NUSA 17 |place=Jakarta |publisher=Badan Penyelenggara Seri Nusa |chapter-url=http://sealang.net/archives/nusa/pdf/nusa-v31-p1-18.pdf}}