Muna language

E169352

The Muna language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Muna Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its rich verbal morphology and distinct phonological system.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Muna language canonical 9
Bahasa Muna 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Konawe language
surface form: Butonese language

Wolio language
country Indonesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlignmentType nominative-accusative
hasAlternateName Muna language
surface form: Bahasa Muna

Muna-Buton language
hasClauseStructure prepositional phrases
hasDialect Gu language variety
Lawa dialect
Tiworo dialect
hasFeature distinct phonological system
rich verbal morphology
hasMajorCityOfUse Raha
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
prefixing
suffixing
hasNegationStrategy particle negation
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length absent
no phonemic tone
prenasalized stops
simple vowel inventory
hasResearch descriptive grammar studies
morphosyntactic studies
phonological analyses
hasStressPattern predictable word stress
hasTypologicalFeature focus-like verbal morphology
rich verbal affixation
voice alternations
hasWordOrder SVO
ISO639-3 mnb
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
linguisticArea Celebic languages
region Celebes
surface form: Sulawesi
spokenBy tens of thousands of speakers
spokenIn Indonesia
Muna Island NERFINISHED
Southeast Sulawesi
subfamilyOf Malayo-Polynesian languages
usedBy Muna people
usedInDomain daily communication
local education
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (10)

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

Muna–Buton languages hasMember Muna language
Kendari localLanguages Muna language
Wolio language closelyRelatedTo Muna language
Tukang Besi language closelyRelatedTo Muna language
Muna language hasAlternateName Muna language
this entity surface form: Bahasa Muna
Liabuku language neighboringLanguages Muna language
Kioko language neighboringLanguages Muna language