Tolaki language

Not to be confused with Taloki language.

Tolaki
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sulawesi
Native speakers	(330,000 cited 2000 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Celebic Bungku–Tolaki Western West Coast Tolaki
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lbw
Glottolog	tola1247

Tolaki (To'olaki) is the major language of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is an Austronesian language of the Celebic branch.

Phonology

Consonants^[2]^[3]

		Labial	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	ɡ
	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᵑɡ
Fricative		β	s		h
Lateral			l
Trill			r

/b/ and /d/ are optionally realized as implosives [ɓ] and [ɗ]. /β/ can also be heard as a glide [w].^[2]

Vowels^[2]

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open	a

References

1. Tolaki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Zalili Sailan and La Ode Sidu Marafad and Gusarmin Sofyan and Sahlan, and Hamuni. 1995. Tata Bahasa Tolaki. Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.
3. Mead, David. 1998. Proto–Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax . PhD dissertation. Houston: Rice University, p. 19. hdl:1911/19290