Kuanua

E169113

Austronesian language Oceanic language natural language

Kuanua is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Tolai people of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Kuanua canonical	9

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austronesian language ⓘ Oceanic language ⓘ natural language ⓘ
alternateName	Tolai language ⓘ
associatedEthnicGroup	Tolai people ⓘ surface form: Tolai
country	Papua New Guinea ⓘ
hasGlottocode	tola1241 ⓘ
hasISO639-2Code	tpi ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code	ksd ⓘ
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom	English ⓘ Tok Pisin ⓘ
hasLinguasphereCode	46-ACB-a ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	use of subject markers on verbs ⓘ verb–subject–object basic word order ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length ⓘ simple consonant inventory typical of Oceanic languages ⓘ
isTaughtIn	some primary schools in East New Britain ⓘ
languageBranch	Oceanic languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Austronesian languages ⓘ
languageGroup	Western Oceanic languages ⓘ
languageSubfamily	Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
languageSubgroup	Meso-Melanesian languages ⓘ
region	East New Britain Province ⓘ surface form: East New Britain
spokenBy	Tolai people ⓘ
spokenIn	East New Britain Province ⓘ Papua New Guinea ⓘ
usedAs	lingua franca in East New Britain ⓘ
usedIn	church services in East New Britain ⓘ local radio broadcasts in East New Britain ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

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

Meso-Melanesian languages → hasMemberLanguage → Kuanua ⓘ

Rabaul → languageSpoken → Kuanua ⓘ

Patpatar → neighboringLanguage → Kuanua ⓘ

Lihir → hasNeighboringLanguage → Kuanua ⓘ

Nalik → hasNeighborLanguage → Kuanua ⓘ

Tolai language → alternativeName → Kuanua ⓘ

Western Oceanic → hasLanguage → Kuanua ⓘ

Kokopo → hasPrimaryLanguage → Kuanua ⓘ

Kimbe → languageUsed → Kuanua ⓘ