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Bambam
Bambam
Bambang
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sulawesi
Native speakers	40,000 (2010)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian South Sulawesi Northern Pitu Ulunna Salu Bambam; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ptu
Glottolog	bamb1270

Bambam (Bambang) is an Austronesian language of West Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is spoken in the Mambi, Mehalaan, East Rantebulahan, and Bambang districts of Mamasa Regency, and in the Matangnga district of Polewali Mandar Regency.^[2] Together with Aralle-Tabulahan, Ulumanda', Pannei and Dakka, Bambam belongs to the Pitu Ulunna Salu languages, which form a subbranch within the Northern branch of the South Sulawesi subgroup.^[3]

Phonology

Consonant phonemes^[2]^[4]
		Labial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Velar	Glottal
Stop/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t		k	(ʔ)^[a]
Stop/ Affricate	voiced	b	d	d͡ʒ	g
Fricative		β^[b]	s			h
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Lateral			l
↑ /k/ is realized as [ʔ] in morpheme-final position, e.g. änäk /ænæk/ [ænæʔ] 'child'. ↑ /β/ only occurs in certain dialects, the prestige variant merges it with /b/

↑ Bambam at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
1 2 3 Campbell, Philip J. (1989). Some Aspects of Pitu Ulunna Salu Grammar: A Typological Approach (MA thesis). University of Texas at Arlington.
↑ Friberg, Timothy; Laskowske, Thomas V. (1989). "South Sulawesi languages" (PDF). In J.N. Sneddon (ed.). Studies in Sulawesi linguistics part 1. NUSA 17. Jakarta: Badan Penyelenggara Seri Nusa. pp. 1–17.
1 2 Campbell, Philip J. (1991). "Phonology of Pitu Ulunna Salu" (PDF). In Rene van den Berg (ed.). Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures (PDF). Vol. 12, Sulawesi phonologies. Ujung Pandang, Sulawesi: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 1–52. ISBN 979-8132-85-8.