Demo

A demonstration sample. The character and his voice are AI-generated and do not represent a real person. No heritage-language speech appears on Bublang until the people it comes from have agreed to how it is used.

The character is presented as a fisherman from the coast of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. He speaks Bahasa Indonesia, the country's official language. At home, a man like him would more likely speak a regional language such as Bugis, Makassar or Mandar. The boats behind him are wooden outrigger canoes (perahu bercadik), common along the coasts of Sulawesi and eastern Indonesia. He is not in work clothes but in formal South Sulawesi dress: a black closed-collar jacket (jas tutup) with a pocket-watch chain, a songkok cap, and a silk sarong (lipa' sabbe) folded at the waist. Men wear it at weddings, traditional ceremonies and other formal occasions.