The Northern South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup 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 ...

in the

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. They are spoken in an area that stretches from the western peninsula of Sulawesi to the Gulf of Bone,

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. Its most prominent members are Mandar and

Toraja The Torajan are an ethnic group indigenous people, indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Their population is approximately 1,100,000, of whom 450,000 live in the List of regencies and cities of Indonesia, regency of T ...

Classification

Northern South Sulawesi is divided into five branches: * Mandar * Mamuju *Pitu Ulunna Salu ** Aralle-Tabulahan **

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** Dakka **

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** Ulumanda’ *Massenrempulu ** Duri ** Enrekang ** Maiwa ** Malimpung *Toraja **

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Mamasa Mamasa may refer to: *Mamasa language *Mamasa Regency * Mamasa River See also * Polewali-Mamasa, a former Indonesian Regency *Toraja Mamasa Church The Toraja Mamasa Church was established on 7 June 1947, and based in West Sulawesi. It is a Protes ...

(including Pattae') ** Tae’ ** Talondo’ ** Toraja-Sa’dan The Pitu Ulunna Salu, Massenrempulu and Toraja branches were already recognized by van der Veen (1929) as distinct units.

References

External links

Northern South Sulawesi
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