Bungku language

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

{{Infobox language

|name=Bungku

|states=Indonesia

|region=Sulawesi

|speakers=27,000

|date=2000 census

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Celebic

|fam4=Bungku–Tolaki

|fam6=Eastern

|fam7=East Coast

|iso3=bkz

|glotto=bung1269

|glottorefname=Bungku

}}

Bungku is an Austronesian language (one of the Celebic languages) of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is quite close to Wawonii. It was a local lingua franca before independence.

References

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Further reading

  • Mead, David. 1998. Proto-Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax. PhD dissertation. Houston: Rice University.
  • Mead, David. 1999. The Bungku–Tolaki languages of south-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Series D-91. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

{{Celebic languages}}

{{Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages}}

{{Languages of Indonesia}}

Category:Bungku–Tolaki languages

Category:Languages of Sulawesi

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