Kwamera

E153871

Kwamera is an Oceanic language spoken by indigenous communities on Tanna Island in Vanuatu.

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Kwamera canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu
endangeredStatus vulnerable language
hasAlternativeName Kwamera language
South Tanna language
hasAncestor Proto-Austronesian language
Proto-Oceanic language
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
agglutinative morphology
hasMorphosyntacticFeature prepositions rather than postpositions
use of subject markers
hasNumberOfSpeakers a few thousand speakers (approximate)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory typical of Oceanic languages
ISO639-3Code tnk
isPartOf Southern Vanuatu linguistic area
languageBranch Southern Vanuatu languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageSubfamily Oceanic
region South Pacific
spokenBy indigenous communities on Tanna Island
spokenIn Tanna
surface form: Tanna Island

Vanuatu
usedIn daily communication on parts of Tanna Island
local oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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