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Rampi language

Rampi is a language of Central and South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The main speakers are located in the Rampi district in North Luwu, besides that, the Rampi people also migrated to the north of Lake Poso who are known as Leboni dialect speakers.

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Rampi
Native toIndonesia
RegionSulawesi
EthnicityRampi
Native speakers
10,000 (2006)1
Dialects
  • Leboni
Language codes
ISO 639-3lje
Glottologramp1243

Rampi is a language of Central and South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The main speakers are located in the Rampi district in North Luwu, besides that, the Rampi people also migrated to the north of Lake Poso who are known as Leboni dialect speakers.

Classification

Rampi is classified as a Kaili–Pamona language by Ethnologue 23. Zobel (2020) classifies Rampi as a separate branch coordinate to South Sulawesi and Celebic.2

References

References

  1. Rampi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Zobel, Erik (2020). "The Kaili–Wolio Branch of the Celebic Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 59 (1/2). University of Hawai'i Press: 297–346. doi:10.1353/ol.2020.0014. S2CID 235064564.