Olrat

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Olrat is an Oceanic language of northern Vanuatu, closely related to and geographically adjacent to the Lakon language on Gaua Island.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
belongsTo North and Central Vanuatu linkage
closelyRelatedTo Lakon language NERFINISHED
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus severely endangered
geographicallyAdjacentTo Lakon language NERFINISHED
glottologName Olrat NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Ollorat NERFINISHED
Ollrat NERFINISHED
hasContactLanguage Bislama NERFINISHED
English NERFINISHED
French
hasDocumentationStatus limited descriptive materials
poorly documented
hasDomain vernacular language
hasGlottocode olra1237
hasMorphologicalType moderately analytic
hasNeighboringIsland Vanua Lava Island NERFINISHED
hasNumberOfSpeakers very small speaker population
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
hasSociolinguisticContext spoken mainly in home and local community domains
hasStatus minority language
hasTypologicalFeature prepositions rather than postpositions
subject agreement marking on verbs
hasWordOrder SVO
higherClassification Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
iso639-3Code olr
isSpokenIn Torba Province NERFINISHED
isSpokenOn Gaua Island NERFINISHED
languageBranch Oceanic
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
lexifierFamily Austronesian NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Dorig language NERFINISHED
Koro language (Gaua) NERFINISHED
Lakon language NERFINISHED
Nume language NERFINISHED
region northern Vanuatu
riskFactor language shift to Bislama
language shift to English
language shift to other local languages
spokenIn Gaua Island communities
subfamilyOf North Vanuatu languages NERFINISHED
Southern Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
usedBy indigenous communities of Gaua Island
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Lakon neighboringLanguage Olrat