Totoli language
Appearance
Totoli | |
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Native to | parts of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia |
Native speakers | 25,000 (2001)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | txe |
Glottolog | toto1304 |
ELP | Totoli |
Totoli (also known as Tolitoli) is a Sulawesi language of the Austronesian language family spoken by 25,000 people of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Grammar
[edit]Voice
[edit]Totoli has a symmetrical voice system.[2] In the examples below, i Winarno mongusut kunji motorna is an actor voice construction, while kunji itu kusuti i Winarno is an undergoer voice construction.
I
HON
Winaro
PN
moN-kusut
AV-look.for
kunji
key
motor=na
scooter=3S.GEN
'Winarno is looking for the keys of his scooter.'[2]: 1
The syntactic pivot can be placed before the predicate, as shown:
References
[edit]- Bracks C (2024). Compound Intonation Units in Totoli Postlexical prosody and the prosody-syntax interface (pdf). Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10559070. ISBN 9783961104369.