Sneddon J.N. Proto-Sangiric and Sangiric languages

The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1984. — 146 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 91).The aim of this study is to carry out a comparative analysis of a small group of Austronesian languages with the intention of reconstructing as much as possible of their exclusively shared parent language and determining their inter relationships. The languages involved in the study are called the Sangiric lan guages and their reconstructed parent language is called proto-Sangiric. The study is also intended to provide the material for a later systematic comparison of the Sangiric languages with other groups of Austronesian languages, in order to determine their position within the Austronesian family. The closest relatives of the Sangiric languages appear to be the Minahasan group and the next step should be a detailed study of the relationship between these two groups.