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The Sangiric languages are spoken in North Sulawesi, and in the southern Philippines on the Sarangani Islands off the southern coast of Mindanao. The following internal classification is based on Sneddon (1984): [10] North Sangiric: Sangir, Talaud ( Sangil – not spoken on Sulawesi) South Sangiric: Bantik, Ratahan.
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