Minahasan languages

Minahasan
Minahasan
Geographic; distribution	northern Sulawesi
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Minahasan; ; ;
Glottolog	mina1272

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

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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