Minahasan languages
| Minahasan | |
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| Geographic distribution: | northern Sulawesi |
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| Glottolog: | mina1272[1] |
The Minahasan languages are a group of languages spoken by the Minahasa people in northern Sulawesi. These languages are distinct from the Manado Malay language.
Classification
The languages are (Sneddon 1978:9):
- Tonsawang
- North Minahasan
- Tontemboan
- Northeast: Tondano, Tombulu (Minahasa), Tonsea
Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005) classify Minahasan as a branch of the Philippine languages.
Footnotes
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Minahasan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
References
- K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann, The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge, 2005.
- Sneddon, James N. 1978. Proto-Minahasan: phonology, morphology, and wordlist. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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