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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Bantik Language

<b>Description:</b>

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.
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.<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=844792 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Bantik language Speakers</h2>
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<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Detailed Description:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_bnq_detail-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_bnq_detail-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Map:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_bnq_map-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_bnq_map-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Phonology:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_bnq_phon-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_bnq_phon-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Table Of Contents:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_bnq_contents-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_bnq_contents-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/indonesia Indonesia]</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>

<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/asia Asia]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>bnq</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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  [[Austronesian Group]]

    [[Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

      [[Western Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

        [[Sulawesi Group]]

          [[Sangir-Minahasan Group]]

            [[Sangiric Group]]

              <b>[[Bantik language]]</b>

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