Buginese language

Buginese
Basa Ugi
ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ
Native toIndonesia
RegionSouth Sulawesi; enclaves elsewhere in Sulawesi, Borneo, Sumatra, Maluku, Papua
EthnicityBuginese
Native speakers
L1: 3.5 million
L2: 500,000
Total speakers: 4 million (2015 UNSD)[1]
Latin script
Lontara script
Language codes
ISO 639-2bug
ISO 639-3bug
Glottologbugi1244
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]

  1. ^ a b Buginese at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019) Closed access icon