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Shall we combine pages "Northwest Sumatran languages" and "Batak languages"together?

These two terms seems to referring to the same content. 霎起林野间 ( talk) 04:24, 23 April 2015 (UTC) reply

@ 霎起林野间: No, the Batak languages are only a subset of the languages referred to in this article. – Austronesier ( talk) 08:23, 28 June 2019 (UTC) reply

Incomplete name - page move

The subgroup described in this article is properly called "Barrier Islands–Batak" [1] [2] or "Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands". [3] [4] The latter was adopted in the Ethnologue and the Glottolog. "Northwest Sumatran" may be a handy short form but is AFAIK unsourced or at least not employed in the relevant sources.

I will move the page accordingly. – Austronesier ( talk) 08:53, 28 June 2019 (UTC) reply

References

  1. ^ Nothofer, Bernd (1986). "The Barrier Island Languages in the Austronesian Language Family". In Geraghty, P., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. (eds.) Focal II: Papers From the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, pp. 87–109. Pacific Linguistics, Series C, No. 94, Canberra, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.
  2. ^ Edwards, Owen (2015). "The Position of Enggano within Austronesian". Oceanic Linguistics 54(1): 54-109
  3. ^ Adelaar, K. Alexander, and Himmelmann, Nikolaus. 2005. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.
  4. ^ Ross, Malcolm (1995), "Some current issues in Austronesian linguistics", in D.T. Tryon, ed., Comparative Austronesian Dictionary, 1, 45–120. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.