The Badaic languages include three closely related

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spoken in the North Lore and South Lore districts in

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, viz. Bada (Bada’), Behoa (Besoa), and Napu, and also Limola, spoken in

North Luwu Regency North Luwu Regency is a regency of South Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. It was created on 20 April 1999 by separation of the province's northern districts formerly within the Luwu Regency; however on 25 February 2003 it was reduced when the east ...

South Sulawesi South Sulawesi () is a Provinces of Indonesia, province in the South Peninsula, Sulawesi, southern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Selayar Islands archipelago to the south of Sulawesi is also part of the province. The capital and largest ci ...

. Bada, Besoa and Napu are 80–91% lexically similar and to a great degree mutually intelligible, but their speakers are culturally distinct.Martens, Michael P. (1989)
"The Badaic languages of Central Sulawesi".
In James N. Sneddon (ed.), ''Studies in Sulawesi languages, part 1'', 19–53. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya.

Classification

The classification of the Badaic languages has been controversial. While traditionally held to be a branch of the Kaili-Pamona languages, they share many features with languages of the Seko branch of the

South Sulawesi languages The South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family. They are primarily spoken in the Indonesian provinces of South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi, with a small outlying pocket in West Kalimantan ( Tamanic). Subgroup ...

and have been reclassified in recent subgrouping proposals as South Sulawesi languages that were strongly influenced by Kaili-Pamona languages.Laskowske, Tom. (2007). "The Seko languages of South Sulawesi: a reconstruction". In David Mead (ed.), ''Studies in Philippine languages & cultures: 10-ICAL historical comparative papers'', pp. 115–210. Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines and Summer Institute of Linguistics. Zobel (2020) classifies Badaic with the

Seko languages The Seko languages are a group of four closely related Austronesian languages spoken in West Sulawesi and South Sulawesi provinces, Indonesia. They make up a primary branch of the South Sulawesi subgroup. The languages of the Seko branch are: S ...

as part of a ''Seko–Badaic'' group within the

branch.

Classification

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