Southern Arapesh language
E1021848
The Southern Arapesh language is a Papuan language of the Torricelli family spoken by the Arapesh people of northern Papua New Guinea.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Papuan language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| country | Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Arapesh people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Torricelli language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottologCode | sout2947 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Southern Arapesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Arapesh (Southern)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bumbita Arapesh NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Arapesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Bumbita dialect
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wautogik dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Weri dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Womsis dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Wutun dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch | grammatical description by linguists of Papuan languages ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Abelam language
ⓘ
Abuʼ Arapesh language NERFINISHED ⓘ Boikin language NERFINISHED ⓘ Mountain Arapesh language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone absent
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ vowel length distinctions ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
gender system
ⓘ
noun classes ⓘ prefixal morphology ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
English
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tok Pisin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | ape ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Torricelli language phylum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Arapesh branch ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Torricelli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| region |
East Sepik Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sandaun Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Papua New Guinea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northern Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Arapesh languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Papuan languages ⓘ Torricelli languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | Arapesh communities in village contexts ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday communication within Arapesh communities
ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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