Wolio language

E135943

The Wolio language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, and serves as an important regional lingua franca.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Wolio language canonical 11
Bahasa Wolio 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
branchOf Celebic languages
Muna–Buton languages
closelyRelatedTo Cia-Cia language
Kaimbulawa language
Lasalimu language
Muna language
country Indonesia
ethnicGroup Butonese people
Wolio people
glottocode woli1242
glottologName Wolio
hasAlternativeName Bahasa Wolio
linked to: Wolio language

Butonese Wolio
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable
hasLinguisticArea Sulawesi linguistic area
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic language
linked to: Arabic

Dutch language
linked to: Dutch
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
prenasalized stops
hasRole regional lingua franca
trade language
hasStatus regional language in Indonesia
hasWordOrder SVO
influencedBy Indonesian language
Malay language
linked to: Malay
ISO639-3 wlo
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
primaryCity Baubau
region Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
linked to: Southeast Sulawesi
spokenIn Buton Island
Buton Regency
Indonesia
Southeast Sulawesi
Sulawesi
linked to: Celebes
subfamilyOf Malayo-Polynesian languages
usedAs lingua franca in Baubau area
lingua franca on Buton Island
usedInDomain Islamic religious texts (historically, in Arabic script)
local administration (historically)
traditional literature
usesScriptHistorically Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Buri Wolio script
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Celebic languages hasMember Wolio language
South Sulawesi languages hasSubgroup Wolio language
Wolio language hasAlternativeName Bahasa Wolio
linked to: Wolio language
Tukang Besi language closelyRelatedTo Wolio language
Wotu–Wolio languages haveMember Wolio language
Southeast Sulawesi hasLocalLanguage Wolio language
Muna language closelyRelatedTo Wolio language
Liabuku language neighboringLanguages Wolio language
Kioko language neighboringLanguages Wolio language
Buton Island languageSpoken Wolio language