Mori language cluster

E601380

The Mori language cluster is a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken in central Sulawesi, Indonesia, that share common linguistic features and cultural heritage.

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Mori language cluster canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian languages
language cluster
belongsTo languages of Indonesia
languages of Sulawesi
ethnicGroup Mori people
hasAlternativeName Mori group
linked to: Mori Atas group

Mori languages
hasDialectsOrVarieties Molongkuni
Mori Atas
Mori Bawah
Padoe
Tinompo
Tokondindi
Ulu’uwoi
hasLinguisticFeature Austronesian alignment features
phonemic contrast between prenasalized and plain stops
prefixal and suffixal affixation
reduplication for grammatical and semantic functions
rich verbal morphology
verb-initial word order tendencies
hasMorphosyntacticFeature focus-like verbal morphology
possessive constructions with pronominal clitics
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length in some varieties
five-vowel system in many varieties
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language cluster in Indonesia
hasTypologicalFeature SVO order in some varieties
prepositional phrase marking
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
isEndangered true
isPartOf Bungku–Tolaki subgroup of Celebic
languageFamily Austronesian
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian
locatedIn Central Sulawesi
Indonesia
Sulawesi
linked to: Celebes
region Kolonodale area
Morowali Regency
North Morowali Regency
linked to: Morowali Regency
sharesCulturalHeritageWith Mori people
sharesLinguisticFeaturesWith Bungku–Tolaki languages
studiedBy linguistic fieldworkers in Sulawesi
subclassOf Bungku–Tolaki languages
Celebic languages
threatenedBy language shift to Indonesian
usedFor everyday communication in rural communities
oral tradition
ritual speech

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Mori Bawah language isPartOf Mori language cluster