Muna language
| Muna | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| Region | Muna Island, Buton Island |
Native speakers | (300,000 cited 1989, 2007)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mnb |
| Glottolog |
muna1247[2] |
Muna is an Austronesian language spoken principally on the island of Muna and the adjacent (nowthwestern) part of Buton Island, off the southeast coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
The sequences /bu, pu, mbu, mpu/ have trilled allophones [ʙu, ʙ̥u, mʙu, mʙ̥u] in stressed position.
References
- ↑ Muna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Muna". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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