Buru–Sula languages
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Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
| Buru–Sula–Taliabo | |
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| Geographic distribution | Indonesia |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Glottolog | buru1321 |
The Buru–Sula–Taliabo 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, Mangole
- Taliabo (Kadai, Padang/Samala, Mananga, Mangei/Soboyo)
Another extinct Buru language is the fragmentarily attested Hukumina language.
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