Toba Batak | |
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Hata Batak Toba | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Samosir Island (2° 30′ N, 99°), and to the east, south, and west of Toba Lake in north Sumatra. |
Native speakers | (2 million cited 1991)[1] |
Austronesian
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Latin, Batak alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bbc |
Glottolog | bata1289 [2] |
Toba Batak language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
(1) | Mangallang | kue | dakdanak | i. | ||||
AT-eat | cake | child | the | |||||
'The child is eating a cake.' (Silitonga 1973:3) |
(2) | Dakdanak-on | mang-atuk | biang-i. | |||||
child-this | ACT-hit | dog-DEF | ||||||
'This child hit the dog.' (Cole & Hermon 2008) |
(3a) | Aha | diida | si | John? | ||||
what | TT.see | PM | John | |||||
'What did John see?' (Cole & Hermon 2008) |
(3b) | *Aha | mangida | si | John? | ||||
what | AT.see | PM | John | |||||
Intended: 'What did John see?' (Schachter 1984:126) |