Wotu–Wolio languages


The Wotu–Wolio languages are a group of closely related languages spoken in Sulawesi that belong to the Celebic subgroup of the Austronesian family.

Classification

The Wotu–Wolio languages comprise five languages which are grouped into three branches:
While in earlier classifications, Wolio, Laiyolo, and later also Wotu, were included in the Muna–Buton subgroup, Donohue has shown that based on phonological evidence, the Wotu–Wolio languages form a distrinct subgroup of their own.
Mead included the Wotu–Wolio languages as one out of six branches in the Celebic subgroup.