The Sangiric languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in North Sulawesi, Indonesia and several small islands to the north which belong to the Philippines.
[2] The North Sangiric languages are spoken in the Sangir and Talaud archipelagos of Indonesia just north of Sulawesi, as well as the Sarangani Islands of the Philippines just south of Mindanao.
The South Sangiric languages are spoken in scattered locations on the northern tip of Sulawesi.
Its reflexes are Sangil [r], Sangir, Ratahan [h], Talaud [ʒ ~ k:], Bantik zero.
Sneddon speculates that it may have been a coarticulated apical trill with velar friction, which is the usual realization of Sangil [r].