Wolio is an Austronesian language spoken in and around Baubau on Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs to the Wotu–Wolio branch of the Celebic subgroup. Also known as Buton, it is a trade language and the former court language of the Sultan at Baubau. Today it is an official regional language; street signs are written in the

Buri Wolio Buri Wolio is an Arabic/ Jawi script modified to write Wolio, a language spoken in and around Baubau, the capital of Buton, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. Generally, this script is same with Jawi script, except in Buri Wolio, vowel sounds are ...

alphabet, based on the Arabic script.

Phonology

The five vowels are . The consonant system is characterized by the presence of

prenasalized stops Prenasalized consonants are phonetic sequences of a nasal and an obstruent (or occasionally a non-nasal sonorant such as ) that behave phonologically like single consonants. The primary reason for considering them to be single consonants, rathe ...

, which are treated as a single sound in Wolio. are found in loans, mostly from Arabic. Stress is on the penultimate syllable, and only

open syllables A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "bu ...

are allowed.

Grammar

Wolio personal pronouns have one independent form, and three bound forms. Number is not distinguished in third person. Optionally, plural number can be expressed by means of the plural-marker : "they".

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