Ethnologue

Boano

ISO 639-3

Alternate Names

Boan-diks, Bolano

Population

2,700 (Himmelmann 2001).

Location

Central Sulawesi province: Parigi Moutong sub-district, Bolano village; north peninsula, south coast, facing gulf of Tomini.

Language Maps

Language Status

6b (Threatened).

Classification

Dialects

None known. Lexical similarity: 83% with Totoli [txe].

Language Use

Children are educated in Indonesian [ind] (Wurm 2007). Community.

Language Resources

Other Comments

Different from Boano [bzn] in Maluku. Muslim.