Alternate Names: Mapute, Mopute
Dialects: Lalomerui, Waru. Lexical similarity: 86% with the Waru and Lalomerui dialects, 79% with Mekongga and other Tolaki , dialects, 70% with Rahambuu , and Kodeoha ,, 54% with the Mori , or , and Bungku , groups.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 350 (Mead 1999).
Language Use: Under pressure from larger neighboring languages and from Indonesian [ind] (Wurm 2007).
Nation of Origin: Indonesia
Other Comments: Muslim.