Mori Atas, also known as Upper Mori or West Mori, is an Austronesian language of the Celebic branch. The traditional Mori Atas homeland is the upper course of the Laa River in Central Sulawesi.
Classification Mori Atas is classified as a member of the Bungku-Tolaki group of languages, and shares its closest affinities with the Padoe language.Mead, David. Proto-Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax. (PhD dissertation, Rice University, 1998), p. 117. Together, Mori Atas and Mori Bawah are sometimes referred to collectively by the cover term Mori.
Dialects Mori Atas presents a complicated dialect situation. Following Esser, five dialects can be regarded as principal.Esser, S. J. Phonology and Morphology of Mori, translated from the Dutch version of 1927-1933 (Dallas: SIL, 2011), pp. 2 ff. Molio’a Ulu’uwoi Tambee Molongkuni Impo
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