Wolio

E569508

Wolio is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Wolio people on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Wolio canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
associatedWithCity Baubau
associatedWithFormerPolity Buton Sultanate
closelyRelatedTo Butonese languages
Cia-Cia language
Muna language
continent Asia
country Indonesia
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Wolio people
family Austronesian
hasAlternativeName Bahasa Wolio
linked to: Wolio language

Butonese Wolio
hasDialect rural Wolio varieties
hasGlottocode woli1243
hasGlottologName Wolio
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Indonesian
Malay
hasLinguisticArea Sulawesi linguistic area
hasMajorContactLanguage Bugis
Indonesian
Makassarese
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNativeSpeakersRegion Southeast Sulawesi
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
hasStandardVariety urban Baubau Wolio
hasWordOrder SVO
ISO639-3 wlo
languageFamilyBranch Celebic languages
Muna–Buton languages
primaryLocation Buton Island
region Southeast Sulawesi
scriptVariant Lontara script
spokenIn Baubau
Buton Island
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian
usedAs local lingua franca on Buton Island
usedByReligion Islam (local religious practices)
usedInDomain local administration (historically)
oral tradition
traditional literature
writingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.