Buginese language

Spoken in

  • Austronesian Malayo - Polynesian languages Sulawesische languages South Sulawesische languages Buginesische languages Buginesische language

The buginesische language ( Buginese: ᨅ ᨔ ᨕ ᨘ ᨁ ᨗ, Basa Ugi ) is a language spoken by nearly 4 million people ( Bugis ) is mainly spoken in the south of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. It was formerly written in Lontara, but nowadays is mainly the Latin alphabet in use.

Buginese is a Ergativsprache the Austronesian family, one of the Malayo - Polynesian languages ​​in 1123. It is closely related to the languages ​​of the western Malay Archipelago as Javanese, Sundanese and Madura.

For about 3.5 million people is the Buginese language. Most of them, about 3 million, live in the south of Sulawesi. But there are also some groups in Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Maluku and the Malaysian state of Sabah. In addition, there are still about half a million people who speak Buginese as a foreign language.

Language family Lontara alphabet Madurese language Maluku (province)
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