Bontok language

E528226

Austronesian language Philippine language

The Bontok language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bontok people of the Mountain Province in the northern Philippines, known for its rich oral traditions and distinct dialects.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Eastern Bontok	1
Southern Bontok	1
Southwestern Bontok	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austronesian language ⓘ Philippine language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Ifugao languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalinga language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kankanaey language NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Philippines ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Bontok people NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasAlignmentType	Austronesian alignment ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Bontoc language NERFINISHED ⓘ Bontok Igorot language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDialect	Central Bontok NERFINISHED ⓘ Eastern Bontok NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Bontok NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Bontok NERFINISHED ⓘ Southwestern Bontok NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasGlottocode	bont1248 ⓘ
hasGlottologName	Central Bontok NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature	focus-based voice system ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ use of affixation for grammatical relations ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType	agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length (in some dialects) ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ
hasRichOralTradition	true ⓘ
hasWordOrder	VOS ⓘ VSO ⓘ verb–initial ⓘ
isEndangered	true ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	bnc ⓘ
languageFamily	Austronesian languages ⓘ
languageGroup	Bontok-Kankanay languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Luzon languages NERFINISHED ⓘ South-Central Cordilleran languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageSubfamily	Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryArea	Mountain Province NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	Cordillera Administrative Region NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Luzon NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenBy	Bontok people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn	Mountain Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippines ⓘ
threatenedBy	language shift to English ⓘ language shift to Filipino ⓘ language shift to Ilocano ⓘ
usedIn	folksongs ⓘ rituals ⓘ storytelling ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kalinga language → closelyRelatedTo → Bontok language ⓘ

Cordilleran languages → includesLanguage → Bontok language ⓘ

Balangao language → hasNeighboringLanguage → Bontok language ⓘ

Bontoc → hasDialect → Bontok language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Bontok

Bontoc → hasDialect → Bontok language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern Bontok

Bontoc → hasDialect → Bontok language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southwestern Bontok