Sangir language

E619188

The Sangir language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the Sangihe Islands in Indonesia and parts of the southern Philippines.

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Label Occurrences
Sangir language canonical 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Bantik language NERFINISHED
Ratahan language
Talaud language NERFINISHED
country Indonesia
Philippines
ethnicGroup Sangir people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Sangihe language NERFINISHED
Sangil language
Sangirese
hasAncestor Proto-Austronesian NERFINISHED
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
hasDialects Manganitu dialect
North Sangir dialect
South Sangir dialect NERFINISHED
Tamako dialect
hasEndonym Sangir NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode sang1344
hasLexicalSimilarityWith other North Sulawesi languages
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
prenasalized stops
hasStatus regional language
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
ISO639-3Code sxn
isSpokenBy tens of thousands of speakers
isSubjectOf comparative Austronesian linguistics research
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
Sangiric NERFINISHED
partOf Austronesian languages NERFINISHED
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
region North Sulawesi Province NERFINISHED
Sangihe Islands NERFINISHED
Talaud Islands NERFINISHED
spokenIn Indonesia
North Sulawesi NERFINISHED
Philippines
Sangihe Islands NERFINISHED
southern Philippines
subfamilyOf Sangiric languages NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
verb–initial word order tendency
usedAlongside Indonesian language
Manado Malay NERFINISHED
usedIn folklore
local oral tradition
traditional songs

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