Buginese or Bugis (Buginese: ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ /basa.uɡi/) is a language spoken by about 4 million people mainly in the southern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The
write the Bugineselanguage, followed by Makassarese and Mandar. Closely related variants of Lontara are also used to write several languages outside of
The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (Dutch: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, lit. 'Royal
Sulawesi languages are primary branches of Malayo-Polynesian. Some languages, like Buginese (five million speakers) and Makassarese (two million speakers)
1975. The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic. (Verhandelingen van het KITLV, 73.) The Hague: Nijhoff. Nothofer, Bernd (1988). "A discussion of two Austronesian