Padoe language

Padoe
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sulawesi
Native speakers	(5,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Celebic Bungku–Tolaki Western Interior Padoe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pdo
Glottolog	pado1242
ELP	Padoe

Padoe is an Austronesian language of the Celebic branch. It was traditionally spoken in the rolling plains south of Lake Matano in South Sulawesi province. In the 1950s, a portion of the Padoe-speaking population fled to Central Sulawesi to escape the ravages of the Darul Islam / Tentara Islam Indonesia (DI/TII) revolt.^[2] In 1991, it was estimated there were 5,000 speakers of Padoe in all locations.^[3]

Classification

Padoe is classified as a member of the Bungku-Tolaki group of languages, and shares its closest affinities with the Mori Atas language.^[4][5] The Padoe language has sometimes been included with Mori Atas and Mori Bawah under the broader cover term Mori.

References

1. Padoe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Kirk, Margaret. That Greater Freedom (Singapore: OMF, 1986).
3. Vuorinen, Paula. Tinjauan sosiolinguistik masyarakat Padoe (Unpublished typescript, 13 pp., 1991).
4. Mead, David. 1998. Proto-Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax. (PhD dissertation, Rice University, 1998) p. 117
5. Mead, David. 1999. The Bungku–Tolaki languages of south-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Series D-91. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Further reading

• Karhunen, Marjo (1991). "Phonology of Padoe" (PDF). In Rene van den Berg (ed.). Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures (PDF). Vol. 12, Sulawesi phonologies. Ujung Pandang, Sulawesi: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 179–96. ISBN 979-8132-85-8.