Lenakel

E168148

Lenakel is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on Tanna Island in Vanuatu.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Lenakel canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
basicWordOrder verb–subject–object
closelyRelatedTo South Tanna language
surface form: North Tanna language

Whitesands language
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu
ethnicGroup Tanna people
glottologCode lena1241
hasAlternativeName South Tanna
surface form: Lenakel (Tanna)

West Tanna
hasDemonstratives true
hasDialects Middle Bush varieties
North Tanna
South Tanna
hasMorphologyType predominantly analytic
hasNasalConsonants true
hasNegationMarker true
hasNumberDistinction dual
plural
singular
trial
hasPhonemicContrast long and short vowels
voiced and voiceless stops
hasPossessiveClassification direct possession
indirect possession
hasPrepositions true
hasPronominalSystem inclusive-exclusive distinction
hasReduplication true
hasStressPattern primarily final-syllable stress
hasTAMSystem grammatical marking of tense-aspect-mood
ISO639-3Code tnl
isVSO true
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Oceanic languages
Southern Oceanic languages
macroArea Melanesia
primaryRegion Tanna
surface form: Tanna Island
region Vanuatu
surface form: South Vanuatu
spokenIn Tanna
surface form: Tanna Island

Vanuatu
subclassOf South Vanuatu language
usedFor everyday communication on Tanna Island
usedIn oral tradition on Tanna Island
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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