Bambam language

Bambam
Bambam
Pitu Ulunna Salu
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sulawesi
Native speakers	40,000 (2010)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian South Sulawesi Northern Pitu Ulunna Salu Bambam; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ptu
Glottolog	bamb1270

Bambam (also: Pitu Ulunna Salu) is an

Pannei and Dakka, Bambam belongs to the Pitu Ulunna Salu languages, which form a subbranch within the Northern branch of the South Sulawesi subgroup.^[3]

Phonology

Consonant phonemes^[2]^[4]
		Labial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Velar	Glottal
Stop/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t		k
Stop/ Affricate	voiced	b	d	d͡ʒ	g
Fricative		β^[a]	s			h
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Lateral			l
^ /β/ only occurs in certain dialects, the prestige variant merges it with /b/

/k/ is realized as [ʔ] in morpheme-final position, e.g. /ænæk/ [ænæʔ] 'child'.

^ Bambam at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ ^a ^b ^c Campbell, Philip J. (1989). Some Aspects of Pitu Ulunna Salu Grammar: A Typological Approach (MA thesis). University of Texas at Arlington.
^ Friberg, Timothy; Laskowske, Thomas V. (1989). "South Sulawesi languages" (PDF). In J.N. Sneddon (ed.). Studies in Sulawesi linguistics part 1. NUSA 17. Jakarta: Badan Penyelenggara Seri Nusa. pp. 1–17.
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