Lakalai language

E190191

The Lakalai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lakalai people of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

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Label Occurrences
Lakalai language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
belongsToBranch Western Oceanic languages
belongsToSubgroup Meso-Melanesian languages
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
endangeredStatus vulnerable
family Austronesian languages
hasAlternativeName Nakanai
surface form: Lakalai-Nakanai

Lakalei
Nakanai
hasClassificationSource Ethnologue
Glottolog
hasDomain local trade
oral literature
traditional culture
hasEthnologueEntry Lakalai
hasGlottocode laka1253
hasISO639-3Code llx
hasMorphology agglutinative morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
hasSpeakerCommunity Lakalai people of New Britain
hasTypology SVO word order
isPartOf Papuan region languages
isSpokenOn island of New Britain
languageFamilyLevel Malayo-Polynesian languages
languageStatus minority language in Papua New Guinea
nativeTo New Britain
Papua New Guinea
region New Britain
spokenBy Lakalai people
subfamily Oceanic languages
usedAlongside English
Tok Pisin
usedIn local community communication
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Muna–Buton languages hasMember Lakalai language