Toraja-Saʼdan language

Toraja-Saʼdan (also Toraja, Saʼdan, South Toraja) is an Austronesian language spoken in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It shares the name Taeʼ with East Toraja. Most of the Toraja language mapping was done by Dutch missionaries working in Sulawesi, such as Nicolaus Adriani and Hendrik van der Veen.

Toraja-Saʼdan
Saʼdan
Native toIndonesia
RegionSulawesi
Native speakers
750,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3sda
Glottologtora1261

References

  1. Toraja-Saʼdan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

Further reading

  • Sande, J. S.; Stokhof, W. A. L. (1977). "On the Phonology of the Toraja Kesuʔ Dialect" (PDF). In Ignatius Suharno (ed.). Miscellaneous Studies in Indonesian and Languages in Indonesia, Part IV. NUSA 5. Jakarta: Badan Penyelenggara Seri NUSA. pp. 19–34.


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