| Coastal Konjo | |
|---|---|
| Konjo Ilau’, Konjo Bulukkumba | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | South Sulawesi |
Native speakers | 170,000 (2010 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kjc |
| Glottolog | coas1295 |
 Map showing the distribution of theSouth Sulawesi languages inSulawesi andKalimantan. Bentong language is marked with number 6 in theMakassar languages group. | |
| Coordinates:5°25′0.00″S120°18′0.01″E / 5.4166667°S 120.3000028°E /-5.4166667; 120.3000028 | |
Coastal Konjo is anAustronesian language ofSulawesi,Indonesia, which belongs to theMakassaric branch of theSouth Sulawesi subgroup. It is spoken along the coast in the southeastern corner ofSouth Sulawesi in the regencies ofSinjai,Bulukumba andBantaeng.[2][3] It is closely related to, but distinct fromHighland Konjo, which also belongs to theMakassaric languages.
The following sound inventory is based on Friberg & Friberg (1991).[4]
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Low | a | |
The vowel/a/ is realized as[ə] before geminate nasals.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Semivowel | j | w | ||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
Only[ŋ] and[ʔ] can appear in final position. Words with underlying final/s/,/l/ or/r/ add anecho vowel, e.g./nipis/['nipisi] 'thin'.
Personal pronouns in Coastal Konjo have one independent form, and three bound forms.[5]
| free | ergative | absolutive | possessive | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.sg./1.pl.excl. | nakke | ku- | -a | -ku |
| 1.pl.incl./2.honorific | gitte | ki- | -ki | -ta |
| 2.familiar | kau | nu- | -ko | -mu |
| 3. | ia | na- | -i | -na |
