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 Trans–New Guinea languages
surface form: Papuan languages
hasCountry Indonesia
hasDomain linguistics
hasEthnicity Buli people
hasGlottocode buli1258
hasGlottologName Buli (Indonesia)
hasGlottologReference Glottolog
surface form: Glottolog 4.x
hasISO6393Code bwu
hasLanguageCodeStandard ISO 639
surface form: ISO 639-3
hasLanguageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
hasLanguageStatus vulnerable
hasLexifierFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
hasLinguisticArea Maluku Islands
surface form: Halmahera–New Guinea area
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 Province
surface form: North Maluku
hasSociolinguisticSituation under pressure from Indonesian language
used in local community and home domains
hasSubgroup Papuan Islands
surface form: South Halmahera–West New Guinea
hasTypologicalFeature rich verbal affixation
subject cross-referencing on the verb
voice alternations
hasWordOrder SVO
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
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 Malayo-Polynesian languages
surface form: Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages

Malayo-Polynesian languages
South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages
spokenIn Indonesia
spokenInRegion eastern Indonesia
spokenOn Halmahera
surface form: Halmahera Island

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