Qaqet language
E1037556
The Qaqet language is an indigenous Papuan language spoken by the Baining people of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Papuan language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternateName | Baining (Qaqet) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Papunesia ⓘ |
| contactLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Tok Pisin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Oceania ⓘ |
| country | Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| endangeredStatusSource | UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Baining NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
coastal varieties of Qaqet
ⓘ
inland varieties of Qaqet ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
oral storytelling traditions
ⓘ
traditional rituals of the Baining people ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | qaqe1238 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
postpositions rather than prepositions
ⓘ
prefixal person marking on verbs ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
head-marking
ⓘ
verb-final ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Kuanua language
ⓘ
Siar-Lak language ⓘ Taulil language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone absent
ⓘ
five-vowel system ⓘ moderately large consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | bilingualism with Tok Pisin common among younger speakers ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | byx ⓘ |
| isSpokenInSettlement |
Raunsepna area of East New Britain
ⓘ
coastal Baining villages near Rabaul ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | descriptive grammars by field linguists working in East New Britain ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | local community-based programs in East New Britain ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Baining language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| locatedOn | New Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Qaqet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | East New Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Baining people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
East New Britain Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
increasing use of English in education
ⓘ
language shift to Tok Pisin ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication within Baining communities ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (1)
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