Lihiric

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Lihiric is an Oceanic language spoken by the Lihir people of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea.

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Label Occurrences
Lihiric canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
closelyRelatedTo Kuanua language NERFINISHED
Nalik language NERFINISHED
Tigak language NERFINISHED
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
endangermentStatus vulnerable
glottologCode lihi1237
glottologName Lihir NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Lihir language
hasDomain Lihir culture
local media in Lihir Islands
hasEthnicPopulation Lihir people NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code lih
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNativeSpeakersIn Londolovit Island NERFINISHED
Mahur Island NERFINISHED
Masahet Island NERFINISHED
Niolam Island NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
five-vowel system
prenasalized stops
hasTypologicalFeature SVO basic word order
prepositional language
isVernacularOf Lihir Islands NERFINISHED
languageBranch Oceanic
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageGroup Meso-Melanesian languages NERFINISHED
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
locatedInLinguisticArea Papuan Tip–North New Guinea contact zone NERFINISHED
region New Ireland Province NERFINISHED
spokenBy Lihir people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Lihir Islands NERFINISHED
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
usedAlongside English NERFINISHED
Tok Pisin NERFINISHED
usedIn local education in Lihir Islands
traditional ceremonies of the Lihir people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Lihir hasAlternativeName Lihiric