Celebic languages

The Celebic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, formerly called Celebes.

A few Celebic languages (e.g. Wotu, Bonerate) are located in South Sulawesi province.

David Mead (2003a:125) classifies the Celebic languages as follows.

[3] At the current state of research, the Celebic languages are considered to make up a primary branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup within the Austronesian language family.

[4] David Mead (2003a:125) lists the following sound changes for Proto-Celebic and its subgroups.

Map of the Sulawesi languages with Celebic depicted in red in the cencentrere. Celebic language is spoken a larger area than the other Sulawesi languages
Map of the Sulawesi languages with Celebic depicted in red (the map is in German)