Kosraean

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Kosraean is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the Micronesian island of Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kosraean canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Micronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo other Micronesian Oceanic languages
country Federated States of Micronesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Kosraean people
hasAlternativeName Kosrae State
surface form: Kosrae

Kusaian
Kusaie
Kusaiean
hasDomain local governance
religious practice
traditional oral literature
hasGlottocode kosr1238
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottal stop phoneme
hasRegulatingBody Kosrae State Department of Education
surface form: Kosrae Department of Education
hasWordOrder SVO
ISO639-3Code kos
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Micronesian languages
Oceanic languages
numberOfSpeakers approximately 8000
region Kosrae State
surface form: Kosrae
spokenIn Federated States of Micronesia
Kosrae State
surface form: Kosrae

Federated States of Micronesia
surface form: Micronesia
status indigenous language
minority language
subclassOf Malayo-Polynesian language
usedFor daily communication on Kosrae
usedIn education (to a limited extent)
local media (to a limited extent)
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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