Buginese language
| Buginese (Basa Ugi) | ||
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Spoken in |
Sulawesi ( Indonesia ), Sabah ( Malaysia ) | |
| speaker | 3.5-4 million | |
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| ISO 639 -2 | ( B ) bug | ( T ) |
The Buginese language (Buginese: ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ , Basa Ugi ) is a language that is spoken by almost 4 million people ( Bugis ) mainly in the south of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi . It used to be written in Lontara , but now the Latin script is the most common.
Buginese is an ergative language of the Austronesian family , one of the 1123 Malayo-Polynesian languages . It is closely related to the languages of the western Malay Archipelago such as Javanese , Sundanese and Madurese .
Buginese is the mother tongue of around 3.5 million people . Most of them, around 3 million, live in southern Sulawesi. But there are also some groups in Java , Sumatra , Kalimantan , Maluku and the Malaysian state of Sabah . In addition, there are around half a million people who speak Buginese as a foreign language.
Language example
Universal Declaration of Human Rights , Article 1:
“Sininna rupa tau ri jajiangngi rilinoe nappunnai manengngi riasengnge alebbireng. Nappunai riasengnge akkaleng, nappunai riasengnge ati marennni na sibole bolena pada sipakatau pada massalasureng. "
“All people are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should meet one another in a spirit of brotherhood. "
literature
- Husen Abas, Charles E. Grimes: Bugis: introduction and wordlist . In: Darrell T. Tryon (Ed.): Comparative Austronesian dictionary: an introduction to Austronesian studies, part 1: fascicle 1, 549-61. Trends in Linguistics. Documentation . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995.
- Timothy and Barbara Friberg: A dialect geography of Bugis . In: Papers in Western Austronesian linguistics 4, 303-30 . Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra 1988.
