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, 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
Native toIndonesia
RegionNorth Sulawesi
Native speakers
3,000 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bnq
Glottologbant1286[2]

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.

gollark: There are only something like 12 months a year.
gollark: I mean, there's already an LGBT-oriented month, no?
gollark: What if another cause comes along which wants some sort of related month?
gollark: Honestly, this sort of reckless utilization of months concerns me.
gollark: [ARBITRARY TIMESPAN] begins soon? Exciting.

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.
  • 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.
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