Tamanic languages
The Tamanic languages are a small group of languages of Indonesian Borneo:
Tamanic | |
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Geographic distribution | Kalimantan |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | tama1334[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
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tamanic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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.
- K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann. 2005. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.
- 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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