Mussau-Emira language
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Mussau-Emira language is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken primarily on Mussau and nearby islands in Papua New Guinea.
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
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Oceanic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Papuan Tip and neighboring Oceanic contact area ⓘ |
| country | Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable language ⓘ |
| geneticClassification |
Malayo-Polynesian languages
NERFINISHED
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St Matthias languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Oceanic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | offshore islands north of New Ireland ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Mussau language
NERFINISHED
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Mussau-Emira NERFINISHED ⓘ Mussau-Emira (St Matthias) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
inclusive–exclusive distinction in first-person plural pronouns
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number distinction in pronouns including singular, dual, and plural ⓘ possessive classifiers ⓘ prepositions rather than postpositions ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch | descriptive grammar and lexicon by Oceanic linguists ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
simple consonant inventory typical of Oceanic languages ⓘ |
| hasResourceType |
text collections
ⓘ
wordlists ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | emi ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Oceanic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| lexicalInfluence |
English
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tok Pisin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lexicalSimilarity | other St Matthias languages ⓘ |
| region | New Ireland Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Mussau people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Emira Island
NERFINISHED
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Mussau Island NERFINISHED ⓘ St Matthias Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| statusInEducation | limited use in formal education ⓘ |
| statusInMedia | minimal or no regular mass media use ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Oceanic branch of the Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
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head-marking language ⓘ verb–subject–object basic word order (VSO) ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication in Mussau and nearby islands ⓘ |
| usedInDomain |
local religious practice
ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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surface form:
Latin script
|
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