Buginese language

Buginese
Bugis
Basa Ugi
ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ
بهاس بوڬيس/ بَاسَ أُوْڬِيْ
Pronunciation[basa.uɡi]
Native toIndonesia
RegionSouth Sulawesi; enclaves elsewhere in Sulawesi, Borneo, Sumatra, Maluku, Papua
EthnicityBuginese
Native speakers
L1: 3.5 million
L2: 500,000
Total speakers: 4 million (2015 UNSD)[1]
Austronesian
DialectsBuginese dialects
Latin script (Buginese Latin alphabet)
Lontara script
Jawi-Serang script
Official status
Regulated byBadan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Language codes
ISO 639-2bug
ISO 639-3bug
Glottologbugi1244
The distribution of Buginese and Campalagian speakers throughout Sulawesi

Buginese (UK: /bʊɡɪˈnz/, US: /bʊɡəˈniz/ buug-ih-NEEZ; Basa Ugi, Lontara script ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ, Jawi-Serang script: بهاس بوڬيس/ بَاسَ أُوْڬِيْ, pronounced [basa.uɡi]), or simply Bugis, is an Austronesian language spoken by about 4 million people by the Buginese people mainly in the southern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia.[1]

  1. ^ a b Buginese at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)