Minahasa languages

Minahasa languages
Spoken in	Indonesia , North Sulawesi
speaker	250,000
Linguistic classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages Filipino languages Minahasa languages

The Minahasa languages form a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages within the Austronesian languages . The group of languages ​​is spoken by the Minahasa in northern Sulawesi. According to Zorc (1986) and Blust (1991) they belong to the Filipino languages .

Individual languages ​​are (Sneddon 1978: p. 9):

• Tonsawang
• North Minahasa
  • Tontemboan
  • Northeast: Tondano , Tombulu (Minahasa), Tonsea

Individual evidence

1. ↑ K. Alexander Adelaar, Nikolaus Himmelmann: The Austronesian languages ​​of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge, 2005.
2. ^ RD Zorc: The genetic relationships of Philippine languages . In: P. Geraghty, L. Carrington, SA Wurm (Eds.) FOCAL II: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Australian National University, Canberra 1986.
3. ^ Robert Blust: The Greater Central Philippines hypothesis . In: Oceanic Linguistics . 30, No. 2, 1991, pp. 73-129. doi : 10.2307 / 3623084 .
4. ↑ James N. Sneddon: Proto-Minahasan: phonology, morphology, and wordlist . Pacific Linguistics, Canberra 1978.