Nese

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Nese is an endangered Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the island of Malakula in Vanuatu.

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Label Occurrences
Nese canonical 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Oceanic language
endangered language
language
belongsTo Malakula languages
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu
endangermentStatus severely endangered
hasAlternativeName Matanvat
hasDocumentationType grammatical description
lexical materials
hasDomain linguistics
hasEndangermentCause dominance of Bislama in daily communication
migration from traditional villages
hasGlottocode nese1237
hasGlottologName Nese self-link
hasLanguageCodeStandard ISO 639-3
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
phonemic vowel length
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasNeighboringLanguage Naman
Tape
Vovo
V’ënen Taut
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive stress
small consonant inventory
hasResearcher Terry Crowley
hasSociolinguisticSituation used mainly by older speakers
ISO639-3Code nes
isSubjectOf language documentation studies
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Oceanic languages
Southern Oceanic languages
locatedInTimeZone UTC+11
numberOfSpeakers very few speakers
region Malakula
riskFactor language shift to Bislama
language shift to other local languages
spokenBy small community on Malakula
spokenIn Vanuatu
spokenInArchipelago New Hebrides
spokenInVillage Matanvat
spokenOn Malakula
status endangered
subclassOf Austronesian language
Malayo-Polynesian language
Southern Oceanic languages
surface form: Southern Oceanic language
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Nese
Description of subject: Nese is an endangered Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the island of Malakula in Vanuatu.

Referenced by (3)

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

Nese hasGlottologName Nese self-link