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Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
The Buru–Sula languages are a group of
Austronesian languages (geographically
Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken on the
Buru and
Sula Islands in the eastern
Moluccas. Buru itself has almost forty thousand speakers, and Sula about twenty thousand.
Classification
The languages are:
Another extinct Buru language is the fragmentarily attested
Hukumina language.
The
Taliabo languages (Kadai, Padang/Samala, Mananga, Mangei/Soboyo) were once included, but turn out to be Celebic.
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