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Bada (also Badaʼ) is an Austronesian language spoken in the South Lore district of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Together with Napu and Behoa, it belongs to the Badaic subgroup.^[2]

Grammar

Bada has the following pronoun sets:^[3]

	independent	enclitic	prefixed	suffixed
1.sg.	kodoʔ (koʔo)	-aʔ (-naʔ)	ku-	-(ng)kuʔ
2.sg.	io	-koʔ	nu-	-mu
3.sg.	ia	---	na-	-na
1.pl. inclusive	kitaʔ	-keʔ	ta-	-(n)taʔ
1.pl. exclusive	kaiʔ	-kaʔ	ki-	-(ng)kiʔ
2.pl.	kamiu	-komi	ni-	-mi
3.pl.	hera	-heʔ	ra	-nda

^ Bada at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Martens, Michael P. (1989). "The Badaic languages of Central Sulawesi". In James N. Sneddon (ed.), Studies in Sulawesi languages, part 1, 19–53. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya.
^ Woensdregt, Jacob (1925). Mythen en sagen der Berg-Toradja's van Midden-Selebes, vertaald en van aanteekeningen voorzien. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, 65:3. Weltevreden: Kolff.