Sangir languages

Sangir languages
Spoken in	Indonesia ( North Sulawesi ), Philippines
speaker	600,000
Linguistic classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages Filipino languages Sangir languages

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

The individual languages ​​are:

• North Sangir
  • Talaud
  • Sangir
• South Sangir
  • Bantik
  • Ratahan

Individual evidence

1. ↑ K. Alexander Adelaar, Nikolaus Himmelmann: The Austronesian languages ​​of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge, 2005.
2. ↑ Zorc, RD 1986. The genetic relationships of Philippine languages. In Geraghty, P., Carrington, L. and Wurm, SA (Eds.) FOCAL II: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Canberra: Australian National University
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-Sangiric and the Sangiric languages . Pacific Linguistics, 1984, p. 57