Rote languages

E231084

Rote languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily on Rote Island and nearby areas in southeastern Indonesia.

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Label Occurrences
Rote languages canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian languages
language group
arealGroup Timor–Babar languages
areMutuallyIntelligibleToVaryingDegrees true
closelyRelatedTo Helong language
Timorese languages
country Indonesia
ethnicGroup Rote people
hasGlottocode rote1250
hasPart Ba’a language
Bokai language
Dela-Oenale language
Dengka language
Padoe language
surface form: Diu language

Keka language
Keka-Diu language
Korbafo language
Landu language
Lelenuk language
Lole language
Lole language
surface form: Lolein language

Oenale language
Dela-Oenale language
surface form: Oenale-Dela language

Oepao language
Termanu language
Tii language
Tungganamu language
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
haveDialectContinuum true
linguisticClassification Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian > Timor–Babar > Rote
locatedNear Savu Sea
Timor
surface form: Timor Island
partOf Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian language family
region Lesser Sunda Islands
spokenIn East Nusa Tenggara
Indonesia
Rote Island NERFINISHED
southeastern Indonesia
status minority languages in Indonesia
subclassOf Central Malayo-Polynesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
usedBy communities on Rote Island
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
traditional poetry

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

Timor–Babar languages hasMember Rote languages