Sangir language

{{Short description|Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Sangir

|nativename=Sangihẹ̆

|region=North Sulawesi
North Maluku
Davao del Sur
Davao Occidental
Davao Oriental

|ethnicity=Sangir

|states=Indonesia
Philippines

|speakers=Sangir: {{sigfig|165,000|2}}

|date=2010

|ref=e25

|speakers2=Sangil: 15,000 (1996)

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Philippine

|fam4=Sangiric

|fam5=North

|script=Latin

|lc1=sxn|ld1=Sangir

|lc2=snl|ld2=Sangil

|glotto=nort2871

|glottorefname=Sangil–Sangir

}}

Sangir, also known as Sangihé, Sangi, Sangil, or Sangih, is an Austronesian language spoken on the islands linking northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, with Mindanao, Philippines by the Sangir people. It belongs to the Philippine group within the Austronesian language family.

Some lexical influence comes from Ternate and Spanish,{{Cite book |first= M. A. |last=Chlenov |chapter=Sangirtsy |title=Narody i religii mira: Entsiklopediya |date=1998 |publisher=Nauchnoye Izdatelstvo "Bolshaya Rossiyskaya Entsiklopediya" |editor-first=V. A. |editor-last=Tishkov |page = 468 |isbn=5-85270-155-6 |location=Moskva |oclc=40821169 |language=ru}}{{Cite book | first = Shinzō | last = Hayase | title = Mindanao Ethnohistory Beyond Nations: Maguindanao, Sangir, and Bagobo Societies in East Maritime Southeast Asia | year = 2007 | access-date = | isbn = 978-971-550-511-6 | location = Quezon City | publisher = Ateneo de Manila University Press | page = 90 | oclc = 154714449 | language = en}} as well as Dutch and Malay.{{Cite book | last = Sneddon | first = James N. | title = Proto-Sangiric and the Sangiric languages | year = 1984 | doi = 10.15144/PL-B91 | isbn = 0-85883-306-9 | location = Canberra | publisher = Australian National University | series = Pacific Linguistics | volume = B-91 | oclc = 11871135 | page = 13 | language = en }} Many of the Sangirese have migrated to areas outside of the Sangihe archipelago, including mainland Sulawesi, as well as the Philippines, where the language remains vigorous. Sangir is also spoken by Sangirese migrants in North Maluku, Indonesia.{{Cite book | last = Grimes | first = Charles E. | last2 = Grimes | first2 = Barbara D. | chapter = Languages of the North Moluccas: a preliminary lexicostatistic classification | editor-first = E.K.M. | editor-last = Masinambow | title = Maluku dan Irian Jaya | location = Jakarta | publisher = LEKNAS-LIPI | year = 1994 | series = Buletin LEKNAS | volume = 3(1) | pages = 35–63 | oclc = 54222413 | language = en }}

Manado Malay is commonly used among the Sangirese, sometimes as a first language. Manado Malay is particularly influential in Tahuna and Manado.{{Citation | first = David | last = Mead | title = Sangir | year = | access-date = 2023-01-17 | work = Sulawesi Language Alliance | url = http://sulang.org/languages/sangir | url-status = live | archive-url = http://web.archive.org/web/20230117005042/http://sulang.org/languages/sangir | archive-date = 2023-01-17 | language = en }}