Coastal Konjo language
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Coastal Konjo is an Austronesian language of Sulawesi,
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, which belongs to the Makassaric branch of the South Sulawesi subgroup. It is spoken along the coast in the southeastern corner of South Sulawesi in the regencies of Sinjai, Bulukumba and Bantaeng. It is closely related to, but distinct from Highland Konjo, which also belongs to the Makassaric languages.


Phonology

The following sound inventory is based on Friberg & Friberg (1991). The vowel is realized as before geminate nasals. Only and can appear in final position. Words with underlying final , or add an
echo vowel An echo vowel, also known as a synharmonic vowel, is a paragogic vowel that repeats the final vowel in a word in speech. For example, in Chumash, when a word ends with a glottal stop and comes at the end of an intonation unit, the final vowel is ...
, e.g. /nipis/ nipisi'thin'.


Grammar

Personal pronouns in Coastal Konjo have one independent form, and three bound forms.


References

{{Austronesian languages Languages of Sulawesi South Sulawesi languages