Bungku is an Austronesian language (one of the Celebic languages) of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is quite close to Wawonii. It was a local lingua franca before independence.
| Bungku | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sulawesi |
Native speakers | 27,000 (2000 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bkz |
| Glottolog | bung1269 |
References
edit- ^ Bungku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Further reading
edit- Mead, David. 1998. Proto-Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax. PhD dissertation. Houston: Rice University.
- Mead, David. 1999. The Bungku–Tolaki languages of south-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Series D-91. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.