The Northern South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the

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 ...

in the Austronesian language family. They are spoken in an area that stretches from the western peninsula of Sulawesi to the

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. Its most prominent members are Mandar and

Toraja The Torajans are an ethnic group indigenous people, indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Their population is approximately 1,100,000, of whom 450,000 live in the List of regencies and cities of Indonesia, regency of ...

Classification

Northern South Sulawesi is divided into five branches: * Mandar * Mamuju *Pitu Ulunna Salu **

Aralle-Tabulahan Aralle-Tabulahan is an Austronesian language that belongs to the South Sulawesi subgroup. It is spoken in Mamasa Regency, West Sulawesi, Indonesia. Aralle-Tabulahan has three dialects: Aralle, Tabulahan and Mambi. The Mambi dialect is the most ...

** Bambam ** Dakka **

Pannei Pannei is an Austronesian languages, Austronesian language of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is nearly intelligible with other Northern South Sulawesi languages#Pitu Ulunna Salu, Pitu Ulunna Salu languages. References

Languages of Sulawesi So ...

** Ulumanda’ *Massenrempulu ** Duri ** Enrekang ** Maiwa ** Malimpung *Toraja **

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** 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 Sulawesi
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