Saʼdan Toraja

E603062

Saʼdan Toraja is an Austronesian language spoken by the Toraja people of the highland region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Sa’dan Toraja 2
Saʼdan Toraja canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
belongsTo Austronesian language family NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Kalumpang language NERFINISHED
Mamasa language NERFINISHED
Taeʼ language
country Indonesia
documentedBy linguist Hetty Nooy-Palm NERFINISHED
linguist J. Noorduyn
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Toraja people NERFINISHED
glottocode sada1249
hasAlternativeName Saʼdan NERFINISHED
Toraja-Saʼdan NERFINISHED
hasBibleTranslation Toraja Saʼdan Bible translation
hasCulturalAssociation Toraja funeral rites
Toraja oral epics NERFINISHED
Toraja traditional chants
hasDialect Kesuʼ dialect
Makale dialect
Maʼkale-Rantepao dialect cluster NERFINISHED
Mengkendek dialect NERFINISHED
Rantepao dialect
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative morphology
voice-marking system
hasMorphosyntacticAlignment Philippine-type voice system
hasNumberOfSpeakersRange 100000–500000 speakers
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
iso639-3Code sda
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
South Sulawesi languages NERFINISHED
primaryWordOrder verb–initial
region Tana Toraja Regency NERFINISHED
Toraja highlands NERFINISHED
spokenBy Toraja people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Indonesia
South Sulawesi NERFINISHED
standardizedBy local church organizations in Toraja
subclassOf Austronesian language
Malayo-Polynesian language
South Sulawesi language NERFINISHED
usedAlongside Indonesian language
usedFor daily communication
oral literature
traditional rituals

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Toraja people relatedEthnicGroup Saʼdan Toraja
this entity surface form: Sa’dan Toraja
Toraja people subgroup Saʼdan Toraja
this entity surface form: Sa’dan Toraja