Makassar languages
The Makassar languages are a group of languages spoken in the southern part of South Sulawesi province, Indonesia, and make up one of the branches of the South Sulawesi subgroup in the Austronesian language family. The most prominent member of this group is Makassarese, with over two million speakers in the city of Makassar and neighboring areas.
| Makassar | |
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| Geographic distribution | Sulawesi |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Glottolog | maka1310 |
The status of the Makassar languages other than Makassarese as distinct languages is not universally accepted. In older classifications, but also in recent studies by local linguists, they are considered to be dialects of the Makassarese language.
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