| Totoli | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Parts of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia |
Native speakers | 25,000 (2001)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | txe |
| Glottolog | toto1304 |
| ELP | Totoli |
Totoli (also known asTolitoli) is aSulawesi language of theAustronesian language family spoken by about 25,000 of theTotoli people ofCentral Sulawesi,Indonesia.
Totoli has asymmetrical voice system.[2] In the examples below,i Winarno mongusut kunji motorna is an actor voice construction, whilekunji itu kusuti i Winarno is an undergoer voice construction.
I
Winaro
moN-kusut
kunji
key
I Winaro moN-kusut kunji motor=na
HONPNAV-look.for key scooter=3S.GEN
'Winarno is looking for the keys of his scooter.'[2]: 1
The syntactic pivot can be placed before the predicate, as shown:
kopi
coffee
ia
i
Andris
Andrew
kopi ia ni-pogutu i Andris
coffeePRXRLS(UG)-makePN Andrew
'Andrew made this coffee.'[3]: 143
Totoli DoReCo corpus compiled by Maria Bardají, Christoph Bracks, Claudia Leto, Datra Hasan, Sonja Riesberg, Winarno S. Alamudi and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.
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