Mota
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Mota is an Oceanic language of northern Vanuatu, historically notable as a regional lingua franca and early mission language in the area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mota canonical | 3 |
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Lemerig
ⓘ
Mwotlap ⓘ Vera’a ⓘ
surface form:
Vera'a
|
| continent | Oceania ⓘ |
| country | Vanuatu ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Mota language ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Austronesian
ⓘ
Proto-Oceanic language ⓘ
surface form:
Proto-Oceanic
|
| hasGlottocode | mota1237 ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | mtt ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
simple consonant inventory for an Oceanic language ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
early mission language in northern Vanuatu
ⓘ
lingua franca of the Banks and Torres Islands region ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| languageGroup | Northern Vanuatu languages ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Oceanic ⓘ |
| region | northern Vanuatu ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Banks Islands
ⓘ
Mota Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanuatu ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Torres–Banks languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Torres–Banks language
|
| timePeriodOfProminence |
early 20th century
ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ |
| usedAs |
mission language
ⓘ
regional lingua franca ⓘ |
| usedAsMediumOfInstruction | mission schools in northern Vanuatu ⓘ |
| usedBy | Christian missionaries in Vanuatu ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Bible translations
ⓘ
religious texts ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Mota Description of subject: Mota is an Oceanic language of northern Vanuatu, historically notable as a regional lingua franca and early mission language in the area.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.