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Wolio language
| Wolio | |
|---|---|
| Buton | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sulawesi |
Native speakers | 65,000 (2004)[1] |
| Buri Wolio (Arabic script) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wlo |
| Glottolog | woli1241 |
Wolio is an Austronesian language spoken in and around Baubau on Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs to the Wotu–Wolio branch of the Celebic subgroup.[2][3] Also known as Buton, it is a trade language and the former court language of the Sultan at Baubau. Today it is an official regional language; street signs are written in the Buri Wolio alphabet, based on the Arabic script.
Wolio has lexical borrowings from Malay, Arabic, and Dutch.[4] Local languages of eastern Indonesia, such as Bugis, Makasar, and Ternate, have also been influential.[5] The name "Buton", which also refers generically to various ethnic and linguistic groups of the Buton area,[6] is said to be of Ternatese origin (butu, ‘market; marketplace’).[7][8]
- ^ Wolio at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Donohue (2004), p. 33.
- ^ Mead (2003), p. 135.
- ^ Anceaux (1988), pp. 1.
- ^ Anceaux, Grimes & van der Berg (1995), pp. 574.
- ^ Anceaux, Grimes & van der Berg (1995), pp. 573.
- ^ Visser, Leontine E. (2019), "The Historical Paths of Sahu Ceremonial Textiles", Archipel. Études interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien, 98: 121–150, doi:10.4000/archipel.1560, ISSN 0044-8613, OCLC 8599457798,
The island was their "market" or butu in Ternate language. Thus the island became known as Buton.
- ^ Visser, Leontine E. (1989), "Foreign Textiles in Sahu Culture", in Gittinger, Mattiebelle (ed.), To Speak with Cloth: Studies in Indonesian Textiles, Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, University of California, pp. 80–90, ISBN 978-0-930741-17-4, OCLC 20970370,
Because of its strategic geographical position, Buton served as a major stopping place for military and merchant vessels, whence it got the name of "market" after the Ternate word butu for marketplace.
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