Buru–Sula languages

The Buru–Sula languages are a group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken on the Buru and Sula Islands in the eastern Moluccas. Buru itself has almost forty thousand speakers, and Sula about twenty thousand.

Buru–Sula
Geographic distribution	Indonesia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Central Maluku Buru–Sula
Language codes
Glottolog	sula1247

Classification

The languages are:

• Buru: Ambelau, Buru, Lisela, Moksela (extinct), Palumata (extinct)
• Sula: Mangole, Sula

Another extinct Buru language is the fragmentarily attested Hukumina language.

The Taliabo languages (Kadai, Padang/Samala, Mananga, Mangei/Soboyo) were once included, but turn out to be Celebic.^[1]

References

1. Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.