Kalaw Lagaw Ya

E365528

Australian Indigenous language Pama–Nyungan language language

Kalaw Lagaw Ya is an Australian Indigenous language of the Western and Central Torres Strait, notable for its complex grammar and long-standing contact with neighboring Papuan and Aboriginal languages.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Kalaw Lagaw Ya canonical	2
Kalaw Kawaw Ya	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Australian Indigenous language ⓘ Pama–Nyungan language ⓘ language ⓘ
country	Australia ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Torres Strait Islanders ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Kala Lagaw Ya ⓘ surface form: Kala Lagau Ya Kala Lagaw Ya ⓘ Kalaw Lagaw Ya language ⓘ Western Torres Strait language ⓘ
hasContactWith	Aboriginal Australian languages ⓘ Trans–New Guinea languages ⓘ surface form: Papuan languages
hasDialect	Kala Lagaw Ya ⓘ Kalaw Lagaw Ya (western dialect) ⓘ Kaurareg ⓘ Kala Lagaw Ya ⓘ surface form: Kulkalgau Ya
hasGlottocode	kala1378 ⓘ
hasGlottologName	Kala Lagaw Ya ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code	mwp ⓘ
hasLinguasphereCode	30-FAE-a ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom	English ⓘ Mabuiag Island languages ⓘ Papuan languages ⓘ Yolŋu languages ⓘ surface form: Yolngu languages
hasMorphologicalFeature	agglutinative morphology ⓘ case marking on nouns ⓘ complex verbal inflection ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ
hasRevitalizationEffort	community language programs ⓘ school-based language teaching in Torres Strait ⓘ
hasSpeakerPopulationStatus	declining number of fluent speakers ⓘ
hasStatus	endangered ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature	relatively free word order ⓘ use of case to mark grammatical relations ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script
isDocumentedIn	grammars by linguists such as R. M. W. Dixon ⓘ
isRelatedTo	Kuuk Thaayorre ⓘ Yir-Yoront ⓘ other Paman languages ⓘ
languageBranch	Southwestern Paman ⓘ
languageFamily	Pama–Nyungan languages ⓘ surface form: Pama–Nyungan
region	Torres Strait ⓘ
spokenIn	Torres Strait ⓘ surface form: Central Torres Strait Torres Strait Islands ⓘ surface form: Western Torres Strait
subclassOf	Torres Strait Creole ⓘ surface form: Torres Strait Island language
usedFor	cultural and ceremonial contexts ⓘ daily communication in Western Torres Strait communities ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

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

Torres Strait Islanders → hasLanguage → Kalaw Lagaw Ya ⓘ

Kala Lagaw Ya → hasAlternativeName → Kalaw Lagaw Ya ⓘ

Zenadh Kes people → hasLanguage → Kalaw Lagaw Ya ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kalaw Kawaw Ya