The Sangiric languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in North Sulawesi , Indonesia and several small islands to the north which belong to the Philippines . They are classified as a branch of the Philippine subgroup.
4-636: The following classification scheme is from James Sneddon (1984:57). The North Sangiric languages are spoken in the Sangir and Talaud archipelagos of Indonesia just north of Sulawesi , as well as the Sarangani Islands of the Philippines just south of Mindanao . The South Sangiric languages are spoken in scattered locations on the northern tip of Sulawesi . Bantik is spoken in the Manado region, while Ratahan
8-477: Is spoken just south of Lake Tondano. Proto-Sangiric (PSan) has been reconstructed by Sneddon (1984). The exact phonetic nature of *R is unclear. Its reflexes are Sangil [r] , Sangir, Ratahan [h] , Talaud [ʒ ~ k:] , Bantik zero. Sneddon speculates that it may have been a coarticulated apical trill with velar friction, which is the usual realization of Sangil [r] . Many of these sound changes are noticeably similar to those of South Sulawesi languages , spoken on
12-649: The University of Sydney . In 1974, he obtained a doctorate from the Australian National University , where he completed his dissertation Tondano Phonology and Grammar . He was an associate professor at Griffith University in Queensland . Sneddon has written numerous works on the Indonesian language, including grammar textbooks. He is the author of the book Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian , which describes
16-457: The opposite side of Sulawesi. The comparison table (a small selection from Sneddon 1984 :61–114) illustrates the correspondences between the Sangiric languages, including inherited vocabulary as well as Sangiric innovations. James Sneddon James Neil Sneddon is an Australian linguist who specializes in Indonesian and languages of Sulawesi . He studied Linguistics and Indonesian at
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