Mori language cluster

E601380

The Mori language cluster is a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken in central Sulawesi, Indonesia, that share common linguistic features and cultural heritage.

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Mori language cluster canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian languages
language cluster
belongsTo languages of Indonesia
languages of Sulawesi
ethnicGroup Mori people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Mori group NERFINISHED
Mori languages
hasDialectsOrVarieties Molongkuni NERFINISHED
Mori Atas NERFINISHED
Mori Bawah NERFINISHED
Padoe NERFINISHED
Tinompo NERFINISHED
Tokondindi NERFINISHED
Ulu’uwoi NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature Austronesian alignment features
phonemic contrast between prenasalized and plain stops
prefixal and suffixal affixation
reduplication for grammatical and semantic functions
rich verbal morphology
verb-initial word order tendencies
hasMorphosyntacticFeature focus-like verbal morphology
possessive constructions with pronominal clitics
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length in some varieties
five-vowel system in many varieties
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language cluster in Indonesia
hasTypologicalFeature SVO order in some varieties
prepositional phrase marking
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangered true
isPartOf Bungku–Tolaki subgroup of Celebic NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
locatedIn Central Sulawesi NERFINISHED
Indonesia
Sulawesi NERFINISHED
region Kolonodale area NERFINISHED
Morowali Regency NERFINISHED
North Morowali Regency NERFINISHED
sharesCulturalHeritageWith Mori people NERFINISHED
sharesLinguisticFeaturesWith Bungku–Tolaki languages NERFINISHED
studiedBy linguistic fieldworkers in Sulawesi
subclassOf Bungku–Tolaki languages NERFINISHED
Celebic languages
threatenedBy language shift to Indonesian
usedFor everyday communication in rural communities
oral tradition
ritual speech

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Mori Bawah language isPartOf Mori language cluster