Konjo (language)

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Konjo

Spoken in

Sulawesi ( Indonesia )
speaker 150,000 (1991 SIL, mountainous dialect), 125,000 (1991 SIL, coastal dialect)
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639-3

kjk (mountainous
dialect) kjc (coastal dialect)

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 .