Macassarese
(məkæsəˈriːz)
Also Makas(s)arese.
a. The Macassar people. b. Their language. Also attrib. or as adj.
| 1880 [see Dyak]. 1948 D. Diringer Alphabet vii. 430 The Macassarese and the Buginese..are the most important and the most advanced peoples of the island [sc. Celebes]... Macassarese is spoken nowadays in all the districts from Balu Kumba to Segere. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 211/1 The peoples of the south (Buginese and Macassarese) are Moslems. 1968 [see Macassar 2]. |