Mussau-Emira

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Mussau-Emira is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken primarily on Mussau and Emirau islands in Papua New Guinea.

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Mussau-Emira canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
country Papua New Guinea
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Emira
Mussau
Vella Lavella language
surface form: Mussau Island language

Mussau-Emira language
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasDomain vernacular communication
hasGlottocode muss1242
hasGlottologName Mussau-Emira self-link
hasLanguageStatus minority language in Papua New Guinea
hasMorphologicalType mostly analytic
hasNeighboringLanguage Nalik
Tigak
Tungag
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
typical Oceanic consonant inventory
hasResearch descriptive grammar studies
lexicographic documentation
iso639-3Code emi
isPartOf Islands Region of Papua New Guinea
surface form: Papua New Guinea linguistic area
isSpokenBy Emirau islanders
Mussau islanders
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian

Oceanic
linguisticClassification Northwest Solomonic languages
region Bismarck Archipelago
New Ireland Province
spokenIn Emirau Island
Mussau Island
subclassOf Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family
usedFor local cultural practices
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Mussau-Emira hasGlottologName Mussau-Emira self-link