Bantik language
{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia}}
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{{Infobox language
| name = Bantik
| nativename =
| states = Indonesia
| region = North Sulawesi
| speakers = 1,200
| date = 2010
| ref = e18
| familycolor = Austronesian
| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian
| fam3 = Philippine
| fam4 = Sangiric
| fam5 = South
| iso3 = bnq
| glotto = bant1286
| glottorefname = Bantik
| notice = IPA
}}
Bantik is an endangered Austronesian language, perhaps a Philippine language, of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is the traditional language of the {{ill|Bantik people|id|Suku Bantik}} (a subgroup of Minahasans), 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.
Phonology
=Vowels=
=Consonants=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+Bantik consonants !colspan="2"| ! Bilabial ! Alveolar ! Velar ! Glottal |
| rowspan="2"| Stop
| {{IPA link|p}} | {{IPA link|t}} | {{IPA link|k}} | {{IPA link|ʔ}} |
|---|
| voiced
| {{IPA link|b}} | {{IPA link|d}} | {{IPA link|ɡ}} | |
| colspan="2"| Nasal
| {{IPA link|m}} | {{IPA link|n}} | {{IPA link|ŋ}} | |
| colspan="2"| Fricative
| | {{IPA link|s}} | | {{IPA link|h}} |
| colspan="2"| Flap
| | {{IPA link|ɾ}} | | |
Grammar
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=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
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Further reading
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- {{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}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Utsumi |first=Atsuko |date=2012 |title=Applicative Verbs and Applicative Construction in the Bantik Language |url=http://jseals.org/pdf/utsumi2012applicative.pdf |journal=Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society |volume=5 |pages=107–125 |hdl=1885/9147 |hdl-access=free}}
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External links
- [https://abvd.shh.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=5 Bantik Wordlist at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database]
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{{Languages of Indonesia}}
{{Philippine languages}}
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Category:Agglutinative languages
Category:Endangered Austronesian languages