Mori Atas, also known as Upper Mori or West Mori, is an
Austronesian language of the
Celebic branch. The traditional Mori Atas homeland is the upper course of the
Laa River in
Central Sulawesi
Central Sulawesi ( Indonesian: ''Sulawesi Tengah'') is a province of Indonesia located at the centre of the island of Sulawesi. The administrative capital and largest city is located in Palu. The 2010 census recorded a population of 2,635,009 fo ...
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Classification
Mori Atas is classified as a member of the
Bungku-Tolaki group of languages, and shares its closest affinities with the
Padoe language. Together, Mori Atas and
Mori Bawah are sometimes referred to collectively by the cover term
''Mori''.
Dialects
Mori Atas presents a complicated dialect situation. Following Esser, five dialects can be regarded as principal.
[Esser, S. J]
''Phonology and Morphology of Mori''
translated from the Dutch version of 1927-1933 (Dallas: SIL, 2011), pp. 2 ff.
* Molio’a
* Ulu’uwoi
* Tambee
* Molongkuni
* Impo
Notes
Bungku–Tolaki languages
Languages of Sulawesi
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