Native to Indonesia Glottolog konj1250 | Region Sulawesi | |
Native speakers (280,000 cited 1990–1991) Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Nuclear MP
South Sulawesi
Makassar
Konjo ISO 639-3 Either:
kjk – Highland Konjo
kjc – Coastal Konjo | ||
Konjo is an Austronesian language, or pair of languages, of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Highland and Coastal Konjo have about 75% lexical similarity.
Location
Highland Konjo is spoken in Bone, Bulukumba, Gowa, and Sinjai regencies of South Sulawesi province, and the interior of the southern peninsula (Ethnologue). It is also spoken in the northwest of the Mount Lompobatang area.
Coastal Konjo is spoken in Bantaeng, Bulukumba, and Sinjai regencies of South Sulawesi province, and around the Selayar Strait (Ethnologue).
References
Konjo language (Sulawesi) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA