Totoli (also known as Tolitoli) is a
Sulawesi
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language of the
Austronesian language
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family spoken by 25,000 people of
Central Sulawesi
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,
Indonesia
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.
Grammar
Voice
Totoli has a
symmetrical voice
Symmetrical voice, also known as Austronesian alignment or the Austronesian focus system, is a typologically unusual kind of morphosyntactic alignment in which "one argument can be marked as having a special relationship to the verb". This specia ...
system.
In the examples below, is an actor voice construction, while is an undergoer voice construction.
The syntactic pivot can be placed before the predicate, as shown:
References
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External links Totoli DoReCo corpus
compiled by Maria Bardají, Christoph Bracks, Claudia Leto, Datra Hasan, Sonja Riesberg, Winarno S. Alamudi and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.
Tomini–Tolitoli languages
Languages of Sulawesi
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