The Saluan–Banggai languages are a group of closely related languages spoken in eastern
Central Sulawesi
Central Sulawesi ( Indonesian: ''Sulawesi Tengah'') is a province of Indonesia located at the centre of the island of Sulawesi. The administrative capital and largest city is located in Palu. The 2010 census recorded a population of 2,635,009 fo ...
province, Indonesia. They belong to the
Celebic subgroup of the
Austronesian family.
Languages
*Eastern:
Banggai,
Balantak
Balantak is an Austronesian language spoken at the head of the eastern peninsula of Sulawesi. It is classified as a member of the Saluan-Banggai branch of the Celebic subgroup. The Balantak language is the primary language of the Balantak peo ...
*Saluanic:
Andio
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,
Bobongko,
Saluan
Saluan, or Loinang after one of its dialects, is the main language of the eastern peninsula of the island of Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's ...
,
Batui
Grimes & Edwards (2021) have proposed the inclusion of
Taliabo (Kadai, Padang/Samala, Mananga, Mangei/Soboyo)
[Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) ''Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste]
Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
/ref> and the Saluan–Banggai languages in a common branch of Celebic, which they call ''Saluan–Taliabu''.[Edwards, Owen; Charles E. Grimes. 2021. ]
Revising the classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste
'
15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (15-ICAL)
June 28 to July 2, 2021, Palacký University Olomouc
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.
References
External links
"Saluan-Banggai"
at '' Ethnologue'' (23rd ed, 2020).
Central Sulawesi
Celebic languages
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