Rumpun bahasa Sulawesi

However, the 2008 study only supported the inclusion of Gorontalo with the Philippine languages, as a coordinate branch (100% support for Gorontalo-Philippines and a primary division into Gorontalo vs Philippine languages). Moderate (80%) support was found for unifying Sangiric and Minahasan; like the other groups of Sulawesi, South Sulawesi and Celebic, lexically at least these appear to lie within Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian and are perhaps most closely tied within that group to Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian. Celebic may be closer to Central-Eastern than Sangir-Minahasan or South Sulawesi. (See Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian.)