Enrekang Language

	Enrekang Language Enrekang is an Austronesian language spoken on Sulawesi, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine .... It belongs to the Northern branch of the South Sulawesi subgroup, and is closely related to Duri and Maiwa.Friberg, Timothy and Thomas V. Laskowske. 1989. South Sulawesi languages. In: J.N.Sneddon (ed.), ''Studies in Sulawesi linguistics part 1'', 1–17. (NUSA: Linguistic Studies of Indonesian and Other Languages in Indonesia, 31). Jakarta: Badan Penyelenggara Seri Nusa, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya. References Languages of Sulawesi South Sulawesi languages {{austronesian-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at . With over 275 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. Indonesia is a presidential republic with an elected legislature. It has 38 provinces, of which nine have special status. The country's capital, Jakarta, is the world's second-most populous urban area. Indonesia shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and the eastern part of Malaysia, as well as maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Palau, and India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago. Within Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and New Guinea, Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger populations. The landmass of Sulawesi includes four peninsulas: the northern Minahassa Peninsula, Minahasa Peninsula, the East Peninsula, Sulawesi, East Peninsula, the South Peninsula, Sulawesi, South Peninsula, and the Southeast Peninsula, Sulawesi, Southeast Peninsula. Three gulfs separate these peninsulas: the Gulf of Tomini between the northern Minahasa and East peninsulas, the Tolo Gulf between the East and Southeast peninsulas, and the Bone Gulf between the South and Southeast peninsulas. The Strait of Makassar runs along the western side of the island and separates the island from Borneo. Etymology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Malayo-Polynesian Languages The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken by the Austronesian peoples outside of Taiwan, in the island nations of Southeast Asia (Indonesian and Philippine Archipelago) and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia in the areas near the Malay Peninsula. Cambodia, Vietnam and the Chinese island Hainan serve as the northwest geographic outlier. Malagasy, spoken in the island of Madagascar off the eastern coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, is the furthest western outlier. The languages spoken south-westward from central Micronesia until Easter Island are sometimes referred to as the Polynesian languages. Many languages of the Malayo-Polynesian family show the strong influence of Sanskrit and Arabic, as the western part of the region has been a stronghold of Hinduism, Buddhism, and, later, Islam. Two morphological characteristics of the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	South Sulawesi Languages The South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family. They are primarily spoken in the Indonesian provinces of South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi, with a small outlying pocket in West Kalimantan. Subgrouping Internal classification This classification follows Grimes & Grimes (1987) and the '' Ethnologue''. PSS pute 'white' :PMP matay > PSS mate 'dead' :PMP suluq > PSS sulo 'torch' :PMP pisaw > PSS piso 'knife' Consonants The velar fricative ɣ only appears in final position as a reflex of PMP R, while z only is found in medial position as a reflex of PMP j. See also Languages of Sulawesi Celebic languages The Celebic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken on the island of Sulawesi, formerly called ''Celebes.'' Almost all of the languages spoken in the provinces of Central Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi belong to the Celeb ... References Citations Bibliography * * * * * * Further reading * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Northern South Sulawesi Languages 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. 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. References External links Northern South Sulawesiat ''Ethnologue ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World'' (stylized as ''Ethnoloɠue'') is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Duri Language Duri is an Austronesian languages, Austronesian language of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is the prestige variety of the Massenrempulu languages. In 2010 123,000 people spoke this language. It is listed as a 'threatened' language by Ethnologue. References Languages of Sulawesi South Sulawesi languages {{austronesian-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Maiwa Language (Sulawesi) Maiwa may refer to: * Maiwa, Indonesia, a district in Sulawesi, Indonesia * Maiwa language (Indonesia), a language of Sulawesi, Indonesia * Maiwa language (Papuan), a language of Papua New Guinea See also * Maiwa's Revenge, an English novel * Maewa railway station, in New Zealand * Maiva, a genus of butterflies * Malwa Malwa is a historical region of west-central India occupying a plateau of volcanic origin. Geologically, the Malwa Plateau generally refers to the volcanic upland north of the Vindhya Range. Politically and administratively, it is also syn ... , a region in India {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Languages Of Sulawesi On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, 114 native languages are spoken, all of which belong to the Malayo-Polynesian languages, Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian languages, Austronesian language family. With a total number of 17,200,000 inhabitants (2015 estimate, based on census data from 2010), Sulawesi displays a high linguistic diversity when compared with the most densely populated Indonesian island Java, which hosts 4–8 languages (depending on count) spoken by 145,100,000 inhabitants. Classification All but three of the languages of Sulawesi belong to one of the following five subgroups, which are almost exclusively spoken on Sulawesi: Gorontalo–Mongondow languages Sangiric languages Minahasan languages Celebic languages South Sulawesi languages The remaining three languages are affiliated to subgroups which are primarily found outside of Sulawesi. Indonesian Bajau language, Indonesian Bajau belongs to the Sama–Bajaw languages, and is spoken by scat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]