Bungku language

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.

Bungku
Native toIndonesia
RegionSulawesi
Native speakers
27,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bkz
Glottologbung1269

References

  1. Bungku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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.
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