Batui language

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Batui
Native to Indonesia
Region Sulawesi
Native speakers
2,900 (2007) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zbt
Glottolog batu1260

Batui is an Austronesian language spoken by a small group of people on the eastern peninsula of the island of Sulawesi.

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The Saluan–Banggai languages are a group of closely related languages spoken in eastern Central Sulawesi province, Indonesia. They belong to the Celebic subgroup of the Austronesian family.

Languages of Sulawesi Languages of a geographic region

On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, 114 native languages are spoken, all of which belong to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. With a total number of 17,200,000 inhabitants, Sulawesi displays a high linguistic diversity when compared with the most densely populated Indonesian island Java, which hosts 4–8 languages spoken by 145,100,000 inhabitants.

References

  1. Batui at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)