Konjo (language)
Konjo | ||
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Spoken in |
Sulawesi ( Indonesia ) | |
speaker | 150,000 (1991 SIL, mountainous dialect), 125,000 (1991 SIL, coastal dialect) | |
Linguistic classification |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
kjk (mountainous |
Konjo (also Kondjo, Tiro) is an Austronesian language spoken in South Sulawesi around Sinjai, Bone, Gowa, Bulukumba . Dialects: There is a mountainous dialect and a coastal dialect. Only 75% of the vocabulary share both dialects, which is why linguists tend to mistake them for different languages.
The coastal Konjo shares 76% of its vocabulary with the Makassar language .