Saluan

E569515

Saluan is an Austronesian language spoken by the Saluan people primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Saluan canonical 8

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
belongsTo Central Sulawesi linguistic area
continent Asia
country Indonesia
countryOfficialLanguageOf none
ethnicGroup Saluan people
geographicDistribution eastern Central Sulawesi
glottologCode salu1253
glottologName Saluan
hasAlternativeName Loinang
Luwuk language
hasDialects Eastern Saluan
Western Saluan
hasDocumentation descriptive grammars and wordlists by field linguists
hasDomainOfUse home
local community
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable (variously classified)
hasLinguisticRelation related to other Saluan–Banggai languages
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative
hasMorphology affixation
hasNeighboringLanguages Balantak
Banggai
linked to: Banggai Islands

Bobongko
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
prenasalized stops
hasResearchField Austronesian linguistics
hasScriptStatus primarily written in Latin alphabet for educational and religious materials
hasStatus minority language in Indonesia
ISO639-3Code loe
languageFamily Austronesian
linguisticSubgroup Saluan–Banggai languages
region Sulawesi
linked to: Celebes
spokenBy Saluan people
spokenIn Central Sulawesi
Indonesia
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
usedFor daily communication among Saluan people
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (8)

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

Saluan people ethnonym Saluan
Saluan people autonym Saluan
Saluan glottologName Saluan
Loinang hasGlottologName Saluan
Batui hasAlternativeName Saluan
Balantak closelyRelatedTo Saluan
Balantak oftenGroupedWith Saluan