Bungku language

Bungku
Native to Indonesia
Region Sulawesi
Native speakers
27,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bkz
Glottolog bung1269[2]

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.

References

  1. Bungku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bungku". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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