Atchin

E603837

Atchin is an Oceanic language variety spoken on Atchin Island off the northeast coast of Malakula in Vanuatu.

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Label Occurrences
Atchin canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language variety
country Vanuatu NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Atchin people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Atchin language NERFINISHED
Atsin NERFINISHED
hasContactLanguage Bislama
English NERFINISHED
French
hasDomain local customary practices
traditional oral literature
hasISO639-3Code atc
hasMorphology moderately agglutinative
hasNeighbouringLanguage Rano NERFINISHED
Uripiv NERFINISHED
Wala NERFINISHED
hasNumberOfSpeakers a few thousand speakers (approximate)
hasPhonology distinction between short and long vowels
small consonant inventory
hasStatus local language of education (informal)
hasTypology SVO word order
isMinorityLanguageIn Vanuatu NERFINISHED
isPartOf Northern Malakula languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
locatedNear northeast coast of Malakula
region northeast Malakula NERFINISHED
northern Vanuatu
spokenIn Atchin Island NERFINISHED
Malakula region NERFINISHED
Vanuatu NERFINISHED
subclassOf Malayo-Polynesian language
Southern Oceanic language NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication in Atchin Island communities
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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