Äiwoo language

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Äiwoo is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on the Reef Islands in Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Äiwoo language canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
alternateName Ayiwo NERFINISHED
Aïwo NERFINISHED
Reef Islands language NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Nalögo language NERFINISHED
Nanggu language
country Solomon Islands
endangeredStatus vulnerable
family Austronesian
hasDialects Reef Islands Äiwoo NERFINISHED
Santa Cruz Äiwoo NERFINISHED
hasGrammarDescription A Grammar of Äiwoo NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verbal morphology
subject agreement markers
hasNotableResearcher Åshild Næss NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
small vowel inventory
hasResearchOn morphosyntax
phonology
semantics
hasSyntacticFeature possessive classifiers
prepositions
languageCodeISO639-3 nfl
languageFamilyBranch Reef-Santa Cruz languages NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
verb-initial language
primaryRegion Reef Islands NERFINISHED
province Temotu Province NERFINISHED
region Melanesia
spokenBy Äiwoo people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Fenualoa Island NERFINISHED
Matema Island NERFINISHED
Ngäsinue Island NERFINISHED
Nifiloli Island NERFINISHED
other Reef Islands
subfamily Oceanic
subfamilyOf Central-Eastern Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
Temotu languages NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication in Reef Islands communities
usedInDomain local religious practices
oral history
traditional narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (3)

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

Temotu languages hasMember Äiwoo language
Temotu languages hasMajorLanguage Äiwoo language
Nendo Island hasLanguage Äiwoo language