Native to Sulawesi, Indonesia Glottolog muna1247 | ISO 639-3 mnb Regions Muna Island, Buton | |
Native speakers (300,000 cited 1989, 2007) Language family Austronesian languages, Malayo-Polynesian languages, Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages | ||
Muna is an Austronesian language spoken principally on the island of Muna and the adjacent (nowthwestern) part of Buton Island, off the southeast coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
The sequences /bu, pu, mbu, mpu/ have trilled allophones [ʙu, ʙ̥u, mʙu, mʙ̥u] in stressed position.
References
Muna language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA