Buru–Sula languages

The Buru–Sula languages are a group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken on the Buru and Sula Islands in the eastern Moluccas. Buru itself has almost forty thousand speakers, and Sula about twenty thousand.

Classification

The languages are:

• Buru: Ambelau, Buru, Lisela, Moksela (extinct), Hukumina (extinct), Palumata (extinct)
• Sula: Mangole, Sula, Taliabo

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