Bontok language

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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.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Bontok language canonical 3
Eastern Bontok 1
Southern Bontok 1

How this entity was disambiguated

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 script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

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 Eastern Bontok
linked to: Bontok language
Bontoc hasDialect Southern Bontok
linked to: Bontok language
Bontoc hasDialect Southwestern Bontok
linked to: Bontok language