Bonggi
A language of Malaysia (Sabah)
| 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. 1986. "Banggi death customs."
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. 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. 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.
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BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 2010. "A role and reference grammar account of Bonggi adversative constructions."
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KROEGER, Paul R., author. 1992. "Vowel harmony systems in three Sabahan languages."

