The position of the Tamanic languages, spoken in West Borneo, was unclear until the end of the last century. The Dutch linguist K.A. Adelaar showed that they are especially close to Buginese and thus can be included in the South Sulawesi subgroup.[3]
Zobel (2020) also classifies the Badaic languages with Seko as part of a Seko–Badaic group within the South Sulawesi branch.[4]
Notes: Italic writing indicates it is considered a dialect and not a separate language.
Position within Austronesian
At the current state of research, the South Sulawesi languages are considered to make up a primary branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup within the Austronesian language family.[5]
South Sulawesi influence in Malagasy
Adelaar (1995) suggested that the vocabulary of Malagasy, next to its basic stratum inherited from Barito and loanwords from Malay, also contains many words that are of South Sulawesi origin.[6] Further evidence was presented by Blench (2018).[7]
The Proto-South-Sulawesi vowel *ɨ is a reflex of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) *ə. It is only preserved in Buginese, in all other languages it mostly became a (but under certain circumstances also i, u, e, and rarely o).[10]
The main sources of the mid vowels are PMP *-iq/*-ay, which became *e, and *-uq/*-aw, which became *o,[11] e.g.
Adelaar, K. A. (1994). "The Classification of the Tamanic Languages". In Dutton, Tom; Tryon, Darrell T. (eds.). Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 1–42.
Mills, Roger Frederick (1975a). Proto South Sulawesi and Proto Austronesian Phonology (Ph.D. dissertation). University of Michigan. hdl:2027.42/157431.
Mills, Roger Frederick (1975b). "The Reconstruction of Proto-South-Sulawesi". Archipel. 10 (1): 205–224. doi:10.3406/arch.1975.1250.
Smith, Alexander D. (2017). "The Western Malayo-Polynesian Problem". Oceanic Linguistics. 56 (2): 435–490. doi:10.1353/ol.2017.0021.
Further reading
Friberg, Barbara (1991). "Ergativity, Focus and Verb Morphology in Several South Sulawesi Languages". In Harlow, Ray (ed.). VICAL 2: Western Austronesian and Ccontact Languages, Parts I and II: Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Auckland: Linguistic Society of New Zealand.
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