Minahasan languages

Minahasan
Geographic
distribution:
northern Sulawesi
Linguistic classification:

Austronesian

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):

Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005) classify Minahasan as a branch of the Philippine languages.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Minahasan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

References


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