Bantik language

Infobox language
name=Bantik
nativename=
familycolor=Austronesian
states=Indonesia
region=North Sulawesi
speakers=~10,000
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
fam3=Sulawesi
fam4=Sangiric
fam5=Southern
iso2=map
iso3=bnq

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.

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

Grammar

Morphology

Bantik is agglutinative.

yntax

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

*cite book |last=Utsumi |first=Atsuko |year=2000 |chapter=Field-work on Bantik language |editor=Kazuto Matsumura |title=Studies in Minority Languages |pages=18–20
*cite book |last=Utsumi |first=Atsuko |year=2000 |chapter=Bantik text: Bararogodo? and Uheitinenden |editor=Tasaku Tsunoda |title=Basic Materials in Minority Languages |pages=23–32

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bnq Ethnologue report for language code:bnq]
* [http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/austronesian/language.php?id=5 Bantik Wordlist at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database]