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Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia
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. 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.
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Bantik is agglutinative .
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.
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Further reading [ edit ]
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" (PDF) . Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) . 5 : 107–125. hdl :1885/9147 .
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