Here, I want to present some evidence for a subbranch of the Celebic macrogroup of Austronesian languages combining languages which usually are assigned to two different subgroups of Celebic, viz. Kaili-Pamona and Wotu-Wolio. The Celebic macrogroup itself was convincingly established by David Mead (2003), but had been proposed in earlier papers by René van den Berg.
The internal classification of Celebic is as follows:
1. Kaili-Wolio
a. Northern Kaili-Wolio
b. Southern Kaili-Wolio
2. Tominic
3. Eastern Celebic
a. Saluan-Banggai
b. Southeastern Celebic
i. Bungku-Tolaki
ii. Muna-Buton
The special position of Ledo among the Kaili lects and a probable relation to Wotu and Wolio was first recognized by S.J. Esser (1934). Similar observations are repeated by Mead (2003), Donohue (2004) and van den Berg (2008) for Wotu-Wolio and Kaili-Pamona as whole.
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