Greetings Style as a Linguistic Identity to Recognize the Poet and Leader of the Buton Community: A Study of Kabhanti Bula Malino’s Manuscripts

This study aims to analyze the style of greetings as a linguistic identity recognize poet and leader Buton community: A Kabhanti Bula Malino's manuscripts. Through an expressive approach descriptive method, data were analyzed through following steps: (1) text reading or techniques (listening-noting), (2) classification, (3) interpretation, (4) conclusion. The results analysis this showed that Muhammad Idrus Qaimuddin (MIQ) is legendary kabhanti writer who was known have commendable character, humble, full attention aspects transcendental life, even though he king (Sultan). Malino (KBM) has truly become evidence existence great once existed in Land KBM itself still by community today.