Buli language

E170930

Buli is an Austronesian language spoken on Halmahera Island in eastern Indonesia, known for its complex verbal morphology and membership in the South Halmahera–West New Guinea subgroup.

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Buli language canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
hasAlternativeName Boly
Buli (Halmahera)
hasContactInfluenceFrom Papuan languages
hasCountry Indonesia
hasDomain linguistics
hasEthnicity Buli people
hasGlottocode buli1258
hasGlottologName Buli (Indonesia)
hasGlottologReference Glottolog 4.x
linked to: Glottolog
hasISO6393Code bwu
hasLanguageCodeStandard ISO 639-3
linked to: ISO 639
hasLanguageFamily Austronesian
hasLanguageStatus vulnerable
hasLexifierFamily Austronesian
hasLinguisticArea Halmahera–New Guinea area
linked to: Maluku Islands
hasMorphologyType complex verbal morphology
hasNationalLanguageContact Indonesian language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported)
prenasalized stops (reported)
hasPrimaryContinent Asia
hasPrimaryIsland Halmahera
hasPrimaryOceanRegion Maluku Islands
hasRegion North Maluku
hasSociolinguisticSituation under pressure from Indonesian language
used in local community and home domains
hasSubgroup South Halmahera–West New Guinea
linked to: Papuan Islands
hasTypologicalFeature rich verbal affixation
subject cross-referencing on the verb
voice alternations
hasWordOrder SVO
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
isDocumentedIn descriptive grammars of South Halmahera languages
isEndangered true
isGeographicallyCloseTo Gane language
Tobelo language
isRelatedTo Gebe language
Taba language
isSpokenByMinority true
memberOf Austronesian languages
Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages
spokenIn Indonesia
spokenInRegion eastern Indonesia
spokenOn Halmahera Island
linked to: Halmahera

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