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.[2]
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 Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis.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
Banggai language test of
Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
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