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Bonggi

A language of Malaysia (Sabah)

ISO 639-3bdg

Population  1,400 (1990 UBS).
Region  Kudat District, Banggi Island. 15 villages.
Language map  Malaysia - Sabah, reference number 106
Alternate names   Banggi, Bangay, Banggi Dusun
Dialects  Most similar to Molbog of the Philippines. Lexical similarity: with dialects of Brunei Bisaya [bsb]: 58% with Sarawak dialect and 57%–59% with Brunei dialect.
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, North Borneo, Sabahan, Dusunic, Bisaya
Language use  Also use Sabah Malay [msi].
Language development  Bible portions: 1992.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BOUTIN, Alanna Y.; BOUTIN, Michael E., authors. 1985. "Report on the languages of Banggi and Balambangan."

BOUTIN, Alanna Y.; BOUTIN, Michael E., authors. 1986. "Banggi death customs."

BOUTIN, Alanna Y.; BOUTIN, Michael E., authors. 1987. "Classification of disease among the Banggi of Sabah."

BOUTIN, Alanna Y.; BOUTIN, Michael E., authors. 1988. Buuk tolu uubm = Buku rangkai-rangkai kata tiga bahasa = Trilingual phrase book; Banggi - Bahasa Malaysia - English.

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1984. "Banggi kinship terminology."

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1988. "Banggi clause structures."

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1988. "Problems in analyzing focus in the languages of Sabah."

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1988. "Transitivity and discourse grounding in Banggi."

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1988. Learn to speak Banggi: a series of twenty-five language learning lessons.

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1990. "The Bonggi."

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1991. "Aspect and temporal reference in Banggi."

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1993. "Bonggi phonemics."

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1993. "Evaluating written and oral sources in ethnohistory studies: the case of Bonggi."

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1994. Aspect in Bonggi.

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1996. "Bonggi clitics."

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1999. "Connectives and clause combining in Banggi."

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 2000. "The role of /l/ in blocking nasal spread in Bonggi."

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 2002. "Nominative and genitive case alternations in Bonggi."

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 2004. Locative predicates in Bonggi.  Available online

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 2010. "A role and reference grammar account of Bonggi adversative constructions."  Available online

BOUTIN, Michael E., author. Available: 2011; Created: 2001. A Role & Reference grammar account of Bonggi -an.

BOUTIN, Michael E.; HOWERY, William, authors. 1991. "A computational analysis of stop transitions in Bonggi prestopped nasals."

KROEGER, Paul R., author. 1992. "Vowel harmony systems in three Sabahan languages."