Balantak is an Austronesian language spoken at the head of the eastern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
It is classified as a member of the Saluan-Banggai branch of the Celebic subgroup.
Although 90% of the population are also proficient in Indonesian, the vernacular is still vigorously used in everyday contexts, and most children only speak Balantak before entering school.
[2] Balantak has the following phoneme inventory:[3] Sequences of like vowels are phonetically realized as long vowels, e.g. toop [tɔ:p] 'cigarette', nuur [nu:r] 'coconut'.
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