Bantik language
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| Bantik | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in | Indonesia | |
| Region | North Sulawesi | |
| Total speakers | ~10,000 | |
| Language family | Austronesian | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | map | |
| ISO 639-3 | bnq | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Bantik is an endangered Austronesian language spoken in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is the traditional language of the Bantik people, who are now switching to Manado Malay (the local variety of Indonesian) as their language for everyday communication, though Bantik is still used as a marker of ethnic identity.
Bantik is regarded as a men's language, used by men in private, and it is considered improper to speak to women in Bantik. Very few women under the age of 30 know how to speak it.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Low | a | |
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | Voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ |
| Voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
| Fricative | s | h | |||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||
[edit] Grammar
[edit] Morphology
Bantik is agglutinative.
[edit] Syntax
The basic sentence orders of Bantik are Subject Verb Object and Verb Object Subject. The former is used when introducing a new object, the latter when introducing a new subject.
[edit] References
- Utsumi, Atsuko (2000). "Field-work on Bantik language". in Kazuto Matsumura. Studies in Minority Languages. pp. 18–20.
- Utsumi, Atsuko (2000). "Bantik text: Bararogodo? and Uheitinenden". in Tasaku Tsunoda. Basic Materials in Minority Languages. pp. 23–32.
