- Source: Bantik language
Bantik is an endangered Austronesian language, perhaps a Philippine language, of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is the traditional language of the Bantik people (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
=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
Further reading
External links
Bantik Wordlist at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Bahasa Bantik
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Suku Minahasa
- Bahasa Sangir
- Bahasa Banjar
- Bahasa Filipino
- Bahasa Bengkulu
- Bahasa Melayu Riau
- Bahasa Sunda
- Bahasa Batak Mandailing
- Bantik language
- BNQ
- Sangiric languages
- Filipino language
- Caluyanon language
- Malay language
- Languages of Sulawesi
- Languages of Indonesia
- Bisayan languages
- Tagalog language
