Balantak

E569518

Balantak is an Austronesian language of central Sulawesi, Indonesia, closely related to and often grouped with the Saluan language.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
closelyRelatedTo Saluan NERFINISHED
continent Asia
country Indonesia
ethnicGroup Balantak people NERFINISHED
glottologCode bala1314
glottologName Balantak NERFINISHED
hasMorphologyType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
simple consonant inventory typical of Celebic languages
hasTypology SVO word order
ISO639-3Code blz
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian

Celebic NERFINISHED
Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
Saluan–Banggai NERFINISHED
locatedInTimeZone UTC+8
oftenGroupedWith Saluan NERFINISHED
region eastern Central Sulawesi NERFINISHED
spokenIn Central Sulawesi NERFINISHED
Indonesia
Sulawesi NERFINISHED
subclassOf Austronesian languages
Celebic languages NERFINISHED
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
Saluanic languages NERFINISHED
Saluan–Banggai languages NERFINISHED
usedAs vernacular language in local communities
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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