Toqabaqita

E147944

Toqabaqita is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, particularly on Malaita Island.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Toqabaqita canonical 2
Toʼabaʼita 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
closelyRelatedTo Baeggu language
Fataleka language
Kwaio language
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
documentedBy Lichtenberk, Frantisek
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Toabaita
Toqabaqita
surface form: Toʼabaʼita
hasClauseType verb-initial clauses in some constructions
hasDomain local trade communication
oral tradition
traditional storytelling
hasLinguisticFeature inclusive-exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns
possessive classifiers
serial verb constructions
subject proclitics
verbal aspect marking
hasMajorGrammarWork A Grammar of Toqabaqita (Lichtenberk)
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasNegationStrategy particle-based negation
hasNumberDistinction dual
plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
five-vowel system
prenasalized stops
hasPronounSystemFeature inclusive-exclusive contrast
hasStressPattern primarily penultimate stress
hasWordOrder SVO
ISO639-3Code mlq
languageBranch Oceanic
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageGroup Southeast Solomonic languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
surface form: Malayo-Polynesian
partOf Southeast Solomonic languages
surface form: Southeast Solomonic subgroup
region Malaita Province
spokenBy To'abaita people
surface form: Toqabaqita people
spokenIn Solomon Islands
spokenOn Malaita Island
usedIn church services in Malaita
local education in Malaita
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (3)

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

Baeggu neighboringLanguage Toqabaqita
Toqabaqita hasAlternativeName Toqabaqita
this entity surface form: Toʼabaʼita