Wolio language

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Wolio is an Austronesian language spoken in and around Baubau on Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs to the Wotu–Wolio branch of the Celebic subgroup.Template:SfnpTemplate:Sfnp Also known as Buton, it is a trade language and the former court language of the Sultan at Baubau. Today it is an official regional language; street signs are written in the Buri Wolio alphabet, based on the Arabic script.

Wolio has lexical borrowings from Malay, Arabic, and Dutch.Template:Sfnp Local languages of eastern Indonesia, such as Bugis, Makasar, and Ternate, have also been influential.Template:Sfnp The name "Buton", which also refers generically to various ethnic and linguistic groups of the Buton area,Template:Sfnp is said to be of Ternatese origin (butu, ‘market; marketplace’).[1][2]

Phonology

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Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
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Fricative voicelessScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link
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Trill Template:IPA link
Lateral Template:IPA link

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Stress is on the penultimate syllable, and only open syllables are allowed.Template:Sfnp

Grammar

Wolio personal pronouns have one independent form, and three bound forms.Template:Sfnp

Personal pronouns
independent actor object possessive
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Number is not distinguished in third person. Optionally, plural number can be expressed by means of the plural-marker Script error: No such module "Lang".: Script error: No such module "Lang". 'they'.Template:Sfnp

See also

References

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Bibliography

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Further reading

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