Mori Atas

Mori Atas
Spoken in	Sulawesi ( Indonesia )
speaker	28,000 ( SIL , 1988)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages Celebic languages Bungku Tolaki languages Mori Atas
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mzq

Mori Atas or West Mori is a language spoken on the upper reaches of the Laa River in central Sulawesi. It is one of the Malayo-Polynesian languages within the Austronesian languages .

Classification

Mori Atas is classified as a member of the Bungku-Tolaki language group and is closely related to the Padoe language within it .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mori Atas at Ethnologue (18th edition, 2015)
2. ↑ Mead, David. 1998. Proto-Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax . PhD dissertation. Houston: Rice University.