Wolio language

Wolio
Spoken in Sulawesi
Native speakers 65,000 plus L2[1]  (date missing)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wlo
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Wolio is an Austronesian language spoken in Bau-Bau on Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. Also known as Buton, it is a trade language and the former court language of the Sultan at Baubau. Today it is an official regional language; street signs are written in Wolio using the Arabic script.

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Phonology

Stress is on the penultimate syllable. The five vowels are /i e a o u/.

Consonants
Labial Apical Laminal Velar Glottal
p t tʃ k ʔ
ɓ ɗ dʒ ɡ
mp nt ɲtʃ ŋk
mb nd ɲdʒ ŋɡ
m n ɲ ŋ
β s h
l, r

/b, d, f/ are found in loans, mostly from Arabic. /β/ is transcribed w, /tʃ/ c. /r/ is a trill.

See also

References

  1. ^ Wolio language at Ethnologue

External links