Bilua

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Bilua is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on Vella Lavella Island in the Solomon Islands.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Mbilua 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Oceanic language
Papuan language
language
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
dataAsOf early 21st century
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Bilua people NERFINISHED
glottologCode bilu1245
glottologName Bilua NERFINISHED
hasAlignmentType nominative-accusative
hasAlternativeName Bilua (Vella Lavella) NERFINISHED
Vella Lavella NERFINISHED
hasClauseStructure postpositional phrases
hasDialects none or not well-documented
hasDocumentation descriptive grammars
lexicons
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking
verb-final
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasNominalClassification gender-like distinctions
hasNumberOfSpeakers approximately 9000
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
hasStressPattern predictable stress
hasVerbalMorphology rich tense-aspect-mood system
hasWordOrder SOV
iso639-3Code blb
languageContactWith English NERFINISHED
Solomon Islands Pijin NERFINISHED
languageFamily Central Solomon languages
Indo-Pacific languages
Papuan languages NERFINISHED
locatedInTimeZone UTC+11
macroArea Papunesia
neighboringLanguages Lavukaleve NERFINISHED
Savosavo NERFINISHED
Touo NERFINISHED
primaryLanguageOf Vella Lavella communities
region Vella Lavella Island NERFINISHED
spokenIn Solomon Islands NERFINISHED
Vella Lavella Island NERFINISHED
subclassOf Central Solomon language NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

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

Bilua language hasAlternativeName Bilua
this entity surface form: Mbilua