Buol language

Buol
Buol
Bwo’ol
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Central Sulawesi
Native speakers	96,000 (2000 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Gorontalo-Mongondow Gorontalic Buol; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	blf
Glottolog	buol1237
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Buol (Bual, Bwo’ol, Bwool, Dia) is a Philippine language spoken in North-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Phonology

Vowels are /a e i o u/. Stress falls on penultimate syllable, with sequence of like vowels counting as one syllable. Consonants are:

p	t̪		k	(ʔ)
b	d	(dʒ)	ɡ
m	n̪		ŋ
β	(s)			(h)
	r	ʎ
w		j

/dʒ/ occurs in loans. /h/, /s/, /ʔ/ are found in loans and a small number of native words, such as /buahaŋa/ 'k.o. cricket', /sio/ 'nine', /naʔal/ 'bark slippers'.

/β/ only occurs before /u/, but there are near-minimal pairs such as /βuŋo/ 'fruit', /buŋol/ 'leaf'.

/ʎ/ is pronounced [l] after a front vowel, as in [dila] 'tongue'; Error using {{IPA symbol}}: "" not found in list if not, but preceded by a front vowel, as in [ae] 'chin'; and [ʎ] elsewhere. However, there is an exception with the sequences /ʎaʎa, ʎoʎa, ʎoʎo/, where the first /ʎ/ is pronounced [l], as in /ʎoʎo/ [loʎo] 'face'.

References

^ Buol at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

"Buol" in K. Alexander Adelaar & Nikolaus Himmelmann, 2005, The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar

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[e18-1] Buol at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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