Bantik language

Short description: Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia

Bantik

Native to| Indonesia
Region| North Sulawesi

Native speakers

| 1,200 (2010)[1]

Language family

Austronesian

* Malayo-Polynesian
* Philippine
* Sangiric
* South
* Bantik

Language codes
ISO 639-3| `bnq`
Glottolog| `bant1286`[2]
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Bantik is an endangered Austronesian language, perhaps a Philippine language, of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is the traditional language of the Bantik people, who are now switching to Manado Malay (the local variety of Malay) as their language for everyday communication. While using Indonesia for formal and religious occasions. 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.

## Contents

* 1 Phonology
* 1.1 Vowels
* 1.2 Consonants
* 2 Grammar
* 2.1 Morphology
* 2.2 Syntax
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading
* 5 External links

## Phonology

### Vowels

Bantik vowels  | Front  | Back

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High  | i | u
Mid  | e | o
Low  | a

### Consonants

Bantik consonants  | Bilabial  | Alveolar  | Velar  | Glottal

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Stop  | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ
voiced | b | d | ɡ |
Nasal  | m | n | ŋ |
Fricative  |  | s |  | h
Flap  |  | ɾ |  |

## Grammar

### Morphology

Bantik is agglutinative.

### 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.

## References

1. ↑ Bantik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Bantik". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bant1286.

## Further reading

* 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.
* Utsumi, Atsuko (2012). "Applicative Verbs and Applicative Construction in the Bantik Language". Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) 5: 107–125. http://jseals.org/pdf/utsumi2012applicative.pdf.

## External links

* Bantik Wordlist at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database

| Bantik language test of Wiktionary at Wikimedia Incubator

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