Majang language

E247384

The Majang language is a Surmic language of the Nilo-Saharan family spoken by the Majangir people of southwestern Ethiopia.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Majang language canonical 4

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilo-Saharan language
Surmic language
language
belongsTo Surmic branch of Nilo-Saharan
country Ethiopia
ethnicGroup Majangir people
family Nilo-Saharan languages
glottologCode maja1243
glottologName Majang
hasAlternativeName Majangir
Majeng
Lamkang
surface form: Möjang

Möjangir
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasDialects minor dialectal variation
hasDomainOfUse home and community communication
local cultural practices
hasEthnologueEntry true
hasLinguisticFeature noun class-like gender distinctions
rich verbal morphology
subject–object–verb word order
tone language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
implosive consonants
tonal contrasts
hasSpeakerCommunity rural communities in southwestern Ethiopia
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangered true
isMinorityLanguageIn Ethiopia
ISO639-3 mpe
languageBranch Surmic
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan languages
surface form: Nilo-Saharan
linguisticClassificationLevel Surmic > Majang
primaryCountry Ethiopia
region Gambela Region
Southwest Ethiopia Peoples Region
surface form: South West Ethiopia Peoples Region
riskFactor pressure from Amharic
pressure from Oromo language
spokenBy Majangir people
spokenIn Ethiopia
Southwestern Ethiopia
surface form: southwestern Ethiopia
subfamily Surmic languages
usedInEducation limited
usedInMedia limited
writingSystemStatus partially standardized

Referenced by (4)

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

Shabo language (proposed) neighboringLanguages Majang language
subject surface form: Shabo language
Gambela Region hasLocalLanguage Majang language
Shabo language hasContactWith Majang language
Anuak language neighboringLanguages Majang language