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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