Tukangbesi

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Tukangbesi

Spoken in

Sulawesi ( Indonesia )
speaker 250,000 ( SIL , 1995)
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639-3

khc Tukangbesi North
bhq Tukangbesi South

Tukangbesi , also called Binongko , is a language spoken on the Tukangbesi Islands in southeast Sulawesi . It is one of the Malayo-Polynesian languages within the Austronesian languages . There is a northern and a southern dialect.

Individual evidence

  1. Tukangbesi at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)