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Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia
The Banggai language is the main language spoken by the inhabitants of the
Banggai Archipelago off the island of
Sulawesi . It belongs to the
Saluan–Banggai branch of the
Celebic subgroup.
Historically, Banggai was a spoken language without a long literary history. The earliest surviving manuscript in the Banggai language comes from the 19th century, the account of a Banggai fisherman who was sold into slavery by
Maguindanaoan raiders in the 1860s-70s before escaping.
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Phonology Consonants /s/ may also be heard as prenasal [ⁿs] when after nasal sounds.
Other sounds like [tʃ, dʒ, ɲ] are heard in loanwords from neighboring languages. Vowels Vowels /e, o/ can also be heard as [ɛ, ɔ] in closed syllables.
[3] References
^
Banggai at
Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Velthoen, Esther Joy. "Contested Coastlines: Diasporas, Trade, and Colonial Expansion in Eastern Sulawesi, 1680-1905." pg. 212. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. Australia: Murdoch University. Available online also at:
https://www.oxis.org/theses/velthoen-2002.pdf [accessed in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia: August 10, 2018] (2002).
^ van den Bergh, J. D. (1953). Spraakkunst van het Banggais . The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
Links Moseley, Christopher and E. R. Asher, ed. Atlas of the World's Languages (New York: Routelege, 1994) p. 122
* indicates proposed status ? indicates classification dispute † indicates
extinct status
* indicates proposed status ? indicates classification dispute † indicates
extinct status
