Totoli language

Totoli (also known as Tolitoli) is a Sulawesi language of the Austronesian language family spoken by 25,000 people of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Voice
Totoli has a symmetrical voice system. In the examples below, i Winarno mongusut kunji motorna is an actor voice construction, while kunji itu kusuti i Winarno is an undergoer voice construction.

'Winarno is looking for the keys of his scooter.'

kunji itu kusut-i i Winaro

key DIST look.for-UV2 HON PN

'The keys are being looked for by Winarno.'

The syntactic pivot can be placed before the predicate, as shown:

gaukan no-gutu ponguman itu

king AV.RLS-make story DIST

'The king made this announcement.'

kopi ia ni-pogutu i Andris

coffee PRX RLS(UG)-make PN Andrew

'Andrew made this coffee.'