Padoe is an
Austronesian language of the
Celebic branch. It was traditionally spoken in the rolling plains south of Lake Matano in
South Sulawesi province. In the 1950s, a portion of the Padoe-speaking population fled to
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 ...
to escape the ravages of the
Darul Islam / Tentara Islam Indonesia (DI/TII) revolt. In 1991, it was estimated there were 5,000 speakers of Padoe in all locations.
Classification
Padoe is classified as a member of the
Bungku-Tolaki group of languages, and shares its closest affinities with the
Mori Atas language.
[Mead, David. 1999. ''The Bungku–Tolaki languages of south-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia''. Series D-91. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.] The Padoe language has sometimes been included with Mori Atas and
Mori Bawah under the broader cover term
''Mori''.
References
Further reading
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Bungku–Tolaki languages
Languages of Sulawesi
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