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Abstract:
The Kaili language area of Central Sulawesi comprises several speech varieties which are more or less closely related to each other, and which various researchers have parceled into from one to up to four or more languages. Beginning with Adriani’s 1898 overview of the languages of Central Celebes, through the 2009 edition of the Ethnologue, this armchair study compares and contrasts the differing views which researchers have taken toward the classification of Kaili languages, which has sometimes included the related Kulawi (Moma) language.
Series:
Sulang Language Data and Working Papers: Survey Reports
Series Number:
001
Publisher:
Sulawesi Language Alliance
Year Published:
2014
Subject Language(s):
Baras, Da’a Kaili, Ledo Kaili, Unde Kaili, Moma
ISO 639-3:
brs, kzf, lew, unz, myl
Publication Language(s):
English
Contributor(s):
Mead, David
author
Table of Contents:
1 Introduction; 2 Kaili isolects; 3 Kaili classifications, past and present; 3.1 Adriani (1898); 3.2 Adriani and Kruyt (1914); 3.3 Kruyt (1938) ‘linguistic classification’; 3.4 Kruyt (1938) ‘anthropological classification’; 3.5 Wumbu et al. (1973); 3.6 Barr and Barr (1979); 3.7 Sneddon (1983); 3.8 Wumbu, et al. (1986); 3.9 The Ethnologue (2009); 4 Summary; 4.1 Kaili population estimates; 4.2 Kaili: The next steps; Postscript: The original reference of the term ‘Kaili’; References;
Version History:
Version 1 [24 December 2010] Version 2 [27 June 2014] In version 1 it was incorrectly stated that the Ethnologue listed Tado as a dialect of Da’a Kaili. The present version corrects that error and also updates certain conventions regarding how language names are cited.
Copyright:
© 2010, 2014 by David Mead
License:
All Rights Reserved