Buginese | |
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Basa Ugi ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | South Sulawesi; enclaves elsewhere in Sulawesi, Borneo, Sumatra, Maluku, Papua |
Ethnicity | Buginese |
Native speakers | L1: 3.5 million L2: 500,000 Total speakers: 4 million (2015 UNSD)[1] |
Latin script Lontara script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | bug |
ISO 639-3 | bug |
Glottolog | bugi1244 |
The distribution of Buginese and Campalagian speakers throughout Sulawesi |
Buginese or Bugis (Buginese: ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ /basa.uɡi/) is a language spoken by about 4 million people mainly in the southern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia.[1]