Buginese in Indonesia

Speakers

3,512,114

Type

Location

Buginese in Indonesia

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Buginese in Indonesia

Size

3,512,114

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
South Sulawesi Province
Comments
Buginese is one of local languages (bahasa daerah) in Indonesia

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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Video

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Audio

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Documentation: descriptions

Standardization

Graphisation & script encoding

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
South Sulawesi Provinse

Size / Number of users

Number of users

3512114
Source
Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)
Year
2010

Users within total population

1.48000
Less than 10% use the language

PROPORTION

1
Source
Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)
Year
2010

Users within the reference community

Less than 50% use the language
Actual percentage
30
Source
Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)
Year
2010

Age distribution of users

675,034
19
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)

Year
2010

Age distribution of users

2,590,304
74
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)

Year
2010

Age distribution of users

246,776
7
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)

Year
2010

Generational use

49
51
3,512,114
Reduced among young generations
Source

Indonesia Population: Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics Indonesia)

Year
2010

Educational attainment

No education
Early childhood education
Primary education
Lower secondary education
Higher secondary education
Tertiary education

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Craft and related trades workers
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Services and sales workers
Clerical support workers
Technicians and associate professionals
Professionals
Managers

Language competence

Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Digital use

Less than 10% digital users of the language

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
Result of local language mapping conducted by the Agency of Language Development and Cultivation (2019)
Comments
South Sulawesi Province

Economic dimension

Economic scope
  • Quinary sector
  • Quaternary sector
  • Tertiary sector
  • Secondary sector
  • Primary sector
  • Language not used

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Stability
Decreasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Stability
Decreasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Digital sphere

  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name

Legal system

Completion