Kapingamarangi language

E164392

The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kapingamarangi language canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
Polynesian language
alternateName Kapingamarangi
belongsTo Micronesian Polynesian outlier languages
closelyRelatedTo Nukuoro language
coexistsWith English
surface form: English language

Pohnpeian language
country Federated States of Micronesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable
geographicClassification Western Pacific
hasDialects false
hasDomain daily communication
oral literature
traditional culture
hasGrammarFeature TAM (tense–aspect–mood) particles before the verb
preposed possessive markers
serial verb constructions
hasMorphologyType predominantly analytic
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPronominalCategory exclusive first person plural
inclusive first person plural
hasStressPattern predictable stress system
hasWordFormation reduplication
ISO639-3Code kpg
isPolynesianOutlierLanguage true
languageBranch Oceanic languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageGroup Polynesian languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
linguisticArea Polynesian outliers
minorityLanguageIn Federated States of Micronesia
phonologicalFeature five-vowel system
simple consonant inventory typical of Polynesian languages
primaryLocation Kapingamarangi Atoll
region Micronesia
spokenIn Federated States of Micronesia
Kapingamarangi Atoll
Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
surface form: Pohnpei State
typologicalFeature inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns
use of prepositions rather than postpositions
verb–subject–object word order (VSO)
usedByEthnicGroup Kapingamarangi people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Chuukic–Pohnpeic languages hasMember Kapingamarangi language
Nukuoro language closelyRelatedTo Kapingamarangi language
Kapingamarangi hasLanguage Kapingamarangi language