Tukang Besi is an Austronesian language spoken in the Tukangbesi Islands in southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia by a quarter million speakers. A Tukang Besi...

Rahambuu, Tolaki, Waru Muna–Buton languages Tukang Besi–Bonerate: Bonerate, Tukang Besi North, Tukang Besi South Nuclear Muna–Buton Buton East Buton:...

the languages of Sulawesi" p. 130. Donohue, Mark. 1999. "A grammar of Tukang Besi". p. 6. La Yani Konisi; Ahid Hidayat (2001). Analisis kategori kata bahasa...

east where Tukang Besi is spoken, and is separated by the Gulf of Kolowana Watabo (Teluk Kolowana Watabo). Batuatas Island is to the south. Also the Bouton...

of Sulawesi Tenggara. "Tukang Besi" literally means "iron worker" or "blacksmith" in Indonesian. There is a Tukang Besi language. Separating Buton and...

Just because a language has only one non-close non-open back vowel, it still may not be a true-mid vowel. Tukang Besi is a language in Sulawesi, Indonesia...

Western Munic: Liabuku, Muna (Wuna), Pancana, Kioko Tukangbesi–Bonerate: Tukang Besi, Bonerate In earlier classifications, Wolio, spoken in the city of Baubau...

additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign languages. The official language of Indonesia...

Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو‎) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that...

Old Testament bhq, ISO 639-3 code for the southern dialect of the Tukang Besi language, spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia A type of dark quencher manufactured...

University. doi:10.15144/PL-511. ISBN 0-85883-516-9. Donohue, Mark (1999), "Tukang Besi", Handbook of the International Phonetic Association, Cambridge University...

feet at the climax of the ritual. The Bonerate language is closely related to the language of the Tukang Besi islands off the southeast coast of Buton island...

prepositions have been combined with locative nouns: Di gigir/luhur/handap/tukang/hareup (also ka gigir, ti gigir etc.) are absolute adverial expressions...

working language, many words are derived from Malay, including: atus 'hundred', from ratus barak 'much', from banyak bele 'can', from boleh besi 'iron'...

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