Sula–Buru | |
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Buru–Sula–Taliabo | |
Geographic distribution: |
Indonesia |
Linguistic classification: |
Austronesian
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Glottolog: | buru1321 |
The Sula–Buru languages are a group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken on the Buru and Sula Islands in the eastern Moluccas. Buru itself has almost forty thousand speakers, and Sula about twenty thousand.
The languages are:
Another extinct Buru language may be Hukumina, but it may not have been indigenous to the island, but a Buton language.