Karo Batak

proper noun

An Austronesian language that is spoken by the Karo people of Indonesia; ISO code btx.

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proper noun
  1. An Austronesian language that is spoken by the Karo people of Indonesia; ISO code btx.

    Karo Batak (spoken in Sumatra, Indonesia) […] Table 13: Karo Batak verb forms (Norwood)

    2002, The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems (Fay Wouk, Malcolm Ross), page 2 and page 467
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    Thus, when Brandstetter compares Karo Batak kilkil "to gnaw", Bisayan baŋkil "to bite" he is justified in regarding this as evidence — albeit very slender evidence — for an "Original Indonesian" root kil.

    1988, Austronesian Root Theory: An Essay on the Limits of Morphology (R. A. Blust), page 12

    […] interrogative pronoun, as in the example in (6) from Karo Batak (Austronesian; Sumatra, Indonesia).

    2005, Martin Haspelmath, The World Atlas Of Language Structures, page 379
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