Bantik language
| Bantik | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | North Sulawesi |
Native speakers | 3,000 (2001)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bnq |
| Glottolog | bant1286 |
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, 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.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Low | a | |
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- ^ Bantik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Utsumi, Atsuko (2000). "Field-work on Bantik language". In Kazuto Matsumura (ed.). Studies in Minority Languages. pp. 18–20.
- Utsumi, Atsuko (2000). "Bantik text: Bararogodo? and Uheitinenden". In Tasaku Tsunoda (ed.). 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.