Bantik is an Austronesian language spoken in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ... Categories: Indonesia geography stubs | Provinces of Indonesia ...
Most speakers of Bantik are bilingual in Manado Malay. Manado Malay is a language spoken in Manado and the surrounding area. ...
Also the word stands for 'hair dress ribbon' translated from slavik languages. The word is also used to describe a speacial person in ones life (E)
Some of Austronesian languages do not have much evidence to differentiate adjectives from verbs, and some of them do not set a word class called 'adjectives'.
In this paper, I would like to argue that adjectives and verbs should form different word classes in Bantik, one of the Austronesian languages spoken in North Sulawesi.
First, the morphological evidence for the division of adjectives and verbs will be shown.
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