Tukang Besi Selatan

KODE BAHASA:
 
Kode: bhq
 
Nama: Tukang Besi Selatan
 
PROPINSI:
 
South Sulawesi :: Selayar regency, Bonerate, Kalaotoa, Karompa, and Madu islands; Alor, Ambon, Buru, Maluku, Mongole, Seram, Sulawesi, and Taliabu islands;
 
Southeast Sulawesi :: Tukang Besi archipelago, south islands, and northern Binongko and Tomea islands;
 
Papua :: western areas;
 
Papua :: western areas. 130,000 (1995 SIL), increasing. 100,000 in Maluku.
 
PETA:
Wakatobi
 
NAMA LAIN:
 
Buton, Tukang-Besi, Wakatobi.
 
KLASIFIKASI:
 
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Celebic, Eastern, Southeastern, Muna-Buton, Tukangbesi-Bonerate
 
KELOMPOK BAHASA:
 
Tukangbesi-Bonerate
DIALEK:
 
Binongko, Bonerate, Tomea (Tomia).
 
LEKSIKAL:
 
70%–75% with Tukang Besi North khc, 48% with Cia-Cia cia, 49% with Lasalimu llm, average of 35% with other nearby languages. Lexical similarity 85% with Binongko and Tomea, 81% with Bonerate, 79% with Tomea and Bonerate.
 
STATUS:
 
6a (Vigorous).
 
KOMENTAR:
 
Muslim.
 

 
Wakatobi:
Agama Primer:Islam
Penganut Kristen:5%
Persentase Penginjilan:0%
Jendela 10/40:Y
 

 
Ethnologue: bhq