Bobongko is a member of the Celebic branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family. It is spoken by about 1,500 people in the Togian Islands off the east coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia. The Togian Islands are part of the Tojo Una-Una Regency of Central Sulawesi Province, and Bobongko speakers can be found particularly in the villages of Lembanato, Matobiai and Tirpo on Kilat Bay in the north of Togean Island, and also in the village of Patoyan on Batu Daka Island.
Bobongko is spoken mainly by adults. Children are less likely to speak it as they feel ashamed to do so, although they may understand it. It can be written with the Latin alphabet.
Download an alphabet chart for Bobongko (Excel)
I andeʼ boi kalapuang nosangalu. Jadi no-sangalu kaʼa, no-tugal lampiʼ. Bagitu mo-tugal lampiʼ kaʼa, nako nom-bungkoʼ sama-sama, anu i kalapuang puʼun-nyo, anu i andeʼ tuʼ-nyo.
Monkey and Turtle were friends. So they being friends, they planted bananas. When they were planting bananas, they went and dug up (a banana plant) together, Turtleʼs was the trunk. Monkeyʼs was the top.
Source: A preliminary sketch of the Bobongko language. By David Mead.
Information about Bobongko | Numbers
Information about Bobongko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobongko_language
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/bgb
http://sulang.org/resources/dictionaries/004
http://www.language-archives.org/language/bgb
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bobo1255
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 23.02.26. Last modified: 23.02.26
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