| Minahasan | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
northern Sulawesi |
| Genetic classification: |
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian ? Sangir-Minahasan Minahasan |
| Subdivisions: |
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The Minahasan languages are a group of languages spoken by the Minahasa people in northern Sulawesi.
The languages are,
- Tonsawang
- North Minahasan
- Tontemboan
- Northeast: Tondano, Tombulu, Tonsea
Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005) classified Sangiric and Minahasan as branches of the Philippine languages. However, a 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database found moderate (80%) support for a Sangir-Minahasan family, which it placed among the Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages.
References
- K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann, The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge, 2005.
- Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, 2008.
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