Fore language

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Fore language is a Papuan language spoken by the Fore people of Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands, known for its association with the study of the prion disease kuru.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language
natural language
associatedWith kuru
prion disease research
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
hasAlternativeName Forei NERFINISHED
Foré
hasDomainOfUse home and community communication
local trade and interaction with neighboring groups
hasNeighboringLanguage Gimi language NERFINISHED
Kamano language NERFINISHED
Yagaria language NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone (reported)
simple consonant inventory (relative to neighboring Papuan languages)
hasSociolinguisticStatus primarily oral language
used in traditional rituals
hasSpeakerPopulationStatus minority language
hasTypology SOV word order (subject–object–verb)
iso639-3Code for
languageFamily Trans–New Guinea languages NERFINISHED
locatedInTimeZone UTC+10
region Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
spokenBy Fore people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Eastern Highlands Province NERFINISHED
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
usedBy Fore communities in Okapa District
usedIn anthropological studies of the Fore people
medical fieldwork on kuru
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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