Enga language

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Enga language is a major Papuan language of the Trans–New Guinea family spoken by the Enga people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language
Trans–New Guinea language
agglutinative language
subject–object–verb language
closelyRelatedTo Huli language NERFINISHED
Ipili language NERFINISHED
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
glottocode enga1252
hasAspectMarking true
hasBibleTranslation true
hasCaseMarking true
hasDialect Central Enga NERFINISHED
East Enga NERFINISHED
North Enga NERFINISHED
South Enga NERFINISHED
West Enga NERFINISHED
hasFiveVowelSystem true
hasGrammaticalGender false
hasNounClasses false
hasNumberDistinction true
hasOrthography true
hasPluralSuffixes true
hasPostpositions true
hasPrenasalizedStops true GENERATED
hasStressAccent true
hasTenseMarking true
hasTone false
hasVoicelessStops true
isLargestPapuanLanguageBySpeakers true
isMajorLanguageOf Enga Province NERFINISHED
iso639-3 enq
isVigorous true
languageFamily Trans–New Guinea language family NERFINISHED
linguisticArea Papuan languages area NERFINISHED
morphologicalType agglutinative
name Enga NERFINISHED
primaryWordFormation suffixation
region New Guinea Highlands NERFINISHED
spokenBy Enga people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Enga Province NERFINISHED
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
subfamily Engan languages NERFINISHED
usedInEducation true
usedInLocalAdministration true
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Enga people language Enga language
Enga Province mainIndigenousLanguage Enga language