Badaic language

Badaic
Bada-Behoa-Napu
Native to Indonesia
Region Sulawesi
Native speakers
unknown (23,000 cited 1989–2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
bhz  Bada
bep  Behoa
npy  Napu
Glottolog bada1260[2]

Bada, or Badaic, is a dialect continuum of Malayo-Polynesian languages in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The three principal varieties, Bada (Bada’), Behoa (Besoa), and Napu, are 85–90% lexically similar, but their speakers are culturally distinct.

References

  1. Bada at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Behoa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Napu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Badaic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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