Photo-Sangiric and the Sangiric Languages

1.2.2. Sangil

This language (Snl) is spoken in coastal areas in the Cotabato and Davao
provinces of Mindanao and also in the lower Sarangani Peninsula and on the nearby
Sarangani Islands. The number of speakers is estimated at up to ten thousand
(Maryott 1977a) . Maryott (1978a) states that the Sangil people migrated to the
Philippines from the Sangir Archipelago several hundred years ago.

Maryott identifies two dialects: that of the Sarangani Islands (Sarangani)
and that spoken on the Mindanao mainland (Mindanao) .

Reid (1971) provides a list of Snl pronouns and demonstratives and 372 words.
Maryott (1977a) has produced a phonological statement of Sarangani dialect and
several other short publications (see bibliography) .

Although the language has always been called Sangil in the literature,
Maryott has recently employed the name Sangire, which represents the indigenous
name [saoira*^]. For the present work the better known, and less confusing, name
Sangil is used.

Information on Snl for this study has come from the sources mentioned above
and from personal communication from Maryott.

PACIFIC LINGUISTICS
Series B - No. 91

PROTO-SANGIRIC AND THE SANGIRIC LANGUAGES

by
J.N. Sneddon

Department of Linguistics
Research School of Pacific Studies
THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
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