Karo Batak

English

Proper noun

Karo Batak

1. An Austronesian language that is spoken by the Karo people of Indonesia; ISO code btx.
   • 1988, Austronesian Root Theory: An Essay on the Limits of Morphology (R. A. Blust), page 12:

     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.

   • 2002, The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems (Fay Wouk, Malcolm Ross), page 2 and page 467:

     Karo Batak (spoken in Sumatra, Indonesia)

     […]

     Table 13: Karo Batak verb forms (Norwood)

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

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