Tamanic languages

The Tamanic languages are a small group of languages of Indonesian Borneo:

Tamanic
Geographic
distribution
Kalimantan
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Subdivisions
Glottologtama1334[1]

The Tamanic languages are not closely related to other languages on Borneo. Instead, they belong to the South Sulawesi languages, most probably in one branch together with Buginese.[2][3][4]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tamanic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. K. A. Adelaar. 1994. The classification of the Tamanic languages. In Tom Dutton and Darrell T. Tryon (eds.), Language contact and change in the Austronesian world, 1-42. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  3. K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann. 2005. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.
  4. Smith, Alexander D. (2017). "The Western Malayo-Polynesian Problem". Oceanic Linguistics. 56 (2): 435–490. doi:10.1353/ol.2017.0021.


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