Mori Atas, also known as Upper Mori or West Mori, is an Austronesian language of the Celebic branch. The traditional Mori Atas homeland is the upper course of the Laa River in Central Sulawesi.
| Mori Atas | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sulawesi |
Native speakers | (28,000 with Mori Bawah cited 1988)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mzq |
| Glottolog | mori1269 |
Classification
editMori Atas is classified as a member of the Bungku-Tolaki group of languages, and shares its closest affinities with the Padoe language.[2] Together, Mori Atas and Mori Bawah are sometimes referred to collectively by the cover term Mori.
Dialects
editMori Atas presents a complicated dialect situation. Following Esser, five dialects can be regarded as principal.[3]
- Molio’a
- Ulu’uwoi
- Tambee
- Molongkuni
- Impo
Notes
edit- ^ Mori Atas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Mead, David. Proto-Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax. (PhD dissertation, Rice University, 1998), p. 117.
- ^ Esser, S. J. Phonology and Morphology of Mori, translated from the Dutch version of 1927-1933 (Dallas: SIL, 2011), pp. 2 ff.