Sula–Buru languages

Sula–Buru
Geographic distribution:	Indonesia
Linguistic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP (Central–Eastern) Sula–Buru
Subdivisions:	Buru Sula

The Sula–Buru languages are a group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken on the Buru and Sula Islands in the eastern Moluccas. Buru itself has almost forty thousand speakers, and Sula about twenty thousand.

Classification

The languages are

• Buru: Buru, Lisela, Palumata (extinct), Moksela (extinct)
• Sula
  • Sula proper: Sula, Mangole
  • Taliabo (Kadai, Padang/Samala, Mananga, Mangei/Soboyo)

Another extinct Buru language may be Hukumina, but that may not have been indigenous to the island.