Bontok language

E528226

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 (5)

Label Occurrences
Bontok language canonical 4
Eastern Bontok 2
Bontok Igorot language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Philippine language
closelyRelatedTo Ifugao languages
Kalinga language
Kankanaey language
country Philippines
ethnicGroup Bontok people
hasAlignmentType Austronesian alignment
hasAlternativeName Bontoc language
Bontok Igorot language
linked to: Bontok language
hasDialect Central Bontok
Eastern Bontok
linked to: Bontok language

Northern Bontok
Southern Bontok
Southwestern Bontok
linked to: Southern Bontok
hasGlottocode bont1248
hasGlottologName Central Bontok
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
Northern Luzon languages
South-Central Cordilleran languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
primaryArea Mountain Province
region Cordillera Administrative Region
Northern Luzon
spokenBy Bontok people
spokenIn Mountain Province
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 (9)

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
Bontok language hasDialect Eastern Bontok
linked to: Bontok language
Bontok language hasAlternativeName Bontok Igorot language
linked to: Bontok language
Balangao Bontok closelyRelatedTo Bontok language