The Northern South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the South Sulawesi languages in the Austronesian language family. They are spoken in an area that stretches from the western peninsula of Sulawesi to the Gulf of Bone, Indonesia. Its most prominent members are Mandar and Toraja.
Classification
Northern South Sulawesi is divided into five branches:
- Mandar
- Mamuju
- Pitu Ulunna Salu
- Aralle-Tabulahan
- Bambam
- Dakka
- Pannei
- Ulumanda’
- Massenrempulu
- Duri
- Enrekang
- Maiwa
- Malimpung
- Toraja
- Kalumpang
- Mamasa (including Pattae')
- Tae’
- Talondo’
- Toraja-Sa’dan
The Pitu Ulunna Salu, Massenrempulu and Toraja branches were already recognized by van der Veen (1929) as distinct units.
See also
- Languages of Sulawesi
- Languages of Indonesia
References
External links
- Northern South Sulawesi at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020).
