Totoli (also known as Tolitoli) is a
Sulawesi
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language of the
Austronesian language family spoken by 25,000 people of
Central Sulawesi
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Indonesia
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Grammar
Voice
Totoli has a
symmetrical voice system.
In the examples below, is an actor voice construction, while is an undergoer voice construction.
The syntactic pivot can be placed before the predicate, as shown:
References
Tomini–Tolitoli languages
Languages of Sulawesi
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