Rampi language

Rampi
Rampi
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sulawesi
Ethnicity	Rampi
Native speakers	10,000 (2006)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Celebic Kaili–Pamona Southern Rampi; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Leboni;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lje
Glottolog	ramp1243

Last updated November 22, 2025

Rampi is a language of Central and South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The main speakers are located in the Rampi district in North Luwu, besides that, the Rampi people also migrated to the north of Lake Poso who are known as Leboni dialect speakers.

Classification

Rampi is classified as a Kaili–Pamona language by Ethnologue 23. Zobel (2020) classifies Rampi as a separate branch coordinate to South Sulawesi and Celebic.^[2]

References

↑ Rampi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Zobel, Erik (2020). "The Kaili–Wolio Branch of the Celebic Languages" . Oceanic Linguistics. 59 (1/2). University of Hawai'i Press: 297–346. doi:10.1353/ol.2020.0014. S2CID 235064564.

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[e18-1] Rampi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Zobel-2020-2] Zobel, Erik (2020). "The Kaili–Wolio Branch of the Celebic Languages" . Oceanic Linguistics. 59 (1/2). University of Hawai'i Press: 297–346. doi:10.1353/ol.2020.0014. S2CID 235064564.

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