Bobongko language explained

Bobongko
States:Indonesia
Region:Sulawesi
Speakers:1,500
Date:2001
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:Celebic
Fam4:Saluan–Banggai
Fam5:Saluanic
Iso3:bgb
Glotto:bobo1255
Glottorefname:Bobongko

Bobongko is an Austronesian language of the Togian Islands off the eastern peninsula of the island of Sulawesi. It belongs to the Saluan–Banggai branch of the Celebic subgroup. Bobongko also contains several loanwords of Gorontalo–Mongondow origin.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Mead, David . 2003b . The Saluan-Banggai microgroup of eastern Sulawesi . Issues in Austronesian historical phonology . John . Lynch . 65–86 . Pacific Linguistics 550 . Canberra . Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University . https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/146173/1/PL-550.pdf#page=73.