Kulisusu is an
Austronesian language
The Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). They are spoken b ...
(one of the
Celebic languages
The Celebic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, formerly called ''Celebes.'' Almost all of the languages spoken in the provinces of Central Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi belong to ...
) of
Southeast Sulawesi
Southeast Sulawesi (, ; often abbreviated to Sultra, ), is a province on the island of Sulawesi, forming the southeastern peninsula of that island, together with a number of substantial offshore islands such as Buton, Muna, Kabaena and Wawon ...
,
Indonesia
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. It is part of a dialect chain with two minor languages, Koroni and Taloki.
References
Further reading
*Mead, David. 1998. ''Proto-Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax''. PhD dissertation. Houston: Rice University.
*Mead, David. 1999. ''The Bungku–Tolaki languages of south-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia''. Series D-91. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Bungku–Tolaki languages
Languages of Sulawesi
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