ISO 639-3 · bugbug
Austronesian family
Buginese
ᨅᨔ ᨕᨚᨁᨗ
Buginese is a language of the South Sulawesi branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia. Wikidata counts 5 m first-language speakers (2000) and 500,000 who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “South Sulawesi language predominantly spoken by the Bugis ethnic group”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
bug- Glottocode
bugi1244- Family
- Austronesian
- Centre point
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- Wikipedia
- 71 language editions
5 mfirst-language speakers
500,000second-language speakers
1countries
2scripts
5levels in the tree
3EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Buginese · ᨅᨔ ᨕᨚᨁᨗ |
|---|---|
| Also called | Buginese language, Bugisnese language, Bugis language, Buginese |
| L1 speakers | 5,017,800 (2000) |
| L2 speakers | 500,000 (2000) |
| Written in | Latin script, Lontara |
Vitality
EGIDS 3 Wider Communication3
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Buginese
The branches above Buginese, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Indonesia
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalcmnMandarin ChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.07 bn1 · NationalcmnStandard ChineseSino-Tibetan · 897.1 maraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeindIndonesianAustronesian · 199 m1 · NationaljavJavaneseAustronesian · 84.3 m4 · EducationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialmsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mnanSouthern MinSino-Tibetan · 48.3 m6a · VigoroushakHakka ChineseSino-Tibetan · 48.2 m5 · Developing