Moma (also Kulawi) is an
Austronesian language spoken in
Central Sulawesi
Central Sulawesi (Indonesian: ''Sulawesi Tengah'') is a province of Indonesia located at the centre of the island of Sulawesi. The administrative capital and largest city is located in Palu. The 2010 census recorded a population of 2,635,009 for ...
,
Indonesia
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. Historically, it is derived from the
Kaili dialect cluster
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated vari ...
, but is divergent due to strong influence from
Uma.
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Phonology
The sound inventory of Moma below had been described by Adriani and Esser (1939).
Like many other languages on Sulawesi, Moma has only open syllables.
Grammar
Moma has the following pronoun sets:
References
Further reading
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Kaili–Pamona languages
Languages of Sulawesi