1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Genus: Sulawesi

Bugis

WALS coordinates: 4° S, 120° E

spoken in Indonesia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Bugis
Routledge:
Other:
  • Rappang Buginese,
  • Buginese
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
14A Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight Phonology
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based Nominal Categories
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54A Distributive Numerals Marked by prefix Nominal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb Other Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages Other NegV Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order No SVONeg Word Order
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