Tolaki language

Tolaki
Tolaki
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sulawesi
Native speakers	330,000 (2000 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Celebic Bungku–Tolaki Western West Coast Tolaki; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lbw
Glottolog	tola1247

Tolaki (To'olaki) is the major language of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is an Austronesian language of the Celebic branch.

Phonology[edit]

Consonants^[2]^[3]
		Labial	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	ɡ
	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᵑɡ
Fricative		β	s		h
Lateral			l
Trill			r

/b/ and /d/ are optionally realized as implosives [ɓ] and [ɗ]. /β/ can also be heard as a glide [w].^[2]

^ Tolaki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b ^c Zalili Sailan and La Ode Sidu Marafad and Gusarmin Sofyan and Sahlan, and Hamuni. 1995. Tata Bahasa Tolaki. Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.
^ Mead, David. 1998. Proto–Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax . PhD dissertation. Houston: Rice University, p. 19. hdl:1911/19290

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