Savosavo language

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The Savosavo language is a Papuan (non-Austronesian) language spoken by the indigenous inhabitants of Savo Island in the Solomon Islands.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Savosavo language canonical 2
Savo language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language
language
non-Austronesian language
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
endangermentStatus vulnerable
geneticClassification Papuan
hasAlternativeName Savo
Savosavo language
surface form: Savo language
hasDomain linguistics
hasLinguisticTypology SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
hasMorphosyntacticAlignment nominative-accusative
hasNumberOfSpeakersApproximate a few thousand speakers
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
hasResearchInterest Papuan language classification
language contact in Solomon Islands
isNotMemberOf Austronesian languages
iso6393Code svs
languageFamily Papuan languages
locatedNear Guadalcanal
region Central Province, Solomon Islands
surface form: Central Solomon Islands
spokenBy indigenous inhabitants of Savo Island
spokenIn Savo Island
Solomon Islands
spokenOn volcanic island
usedBy Savo Island communities
usedFor daily communication
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.

Savo Island hasLanguages Savosavo language
Bilua language hasNeighboringLanguage Savosavo language
Savosavo language hasAlternativeName Savosavo language
this entity surface form: Savo language