Tolomako

E606603

Tolomako is an Oceanic language spoken on Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu, known for its relatively simple phonology and grammar.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tolomako canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Big Bay language NERFINISHED
Tolomaco
hasFeature basic word order SVO
contrast between oral vowels
limited consonant clusters
little inflectional morphology
no case marking on nouns
no grammatical gender
numeral classifiers
phonemic vowel length
possessive constructions with classifiers
prepositional language
productive reduplication
pronominal system with clusivity distinction
relatively simple grammar
relatively simple phonology
relatively transparent morphology
serial verb constructions
simple syllable structure
small consonant inventory
small phoneme inventory
stress on penultimate syllable (tendency)
subject proclitics on verbs
use of particles for grammatical relations
iso639-3Code tlm
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
Oceanic NERFINISHED
Southern Oceanic NERFINISHED
locatedInTimeZone UTC+11
neighboringLanguage Merei NERFINISHED
Sakao NERFINISHED
Shark Bay languages NERFINISHED
partOf linguistic area of northern Vanuatu
region northern Vanuatu
spokenIn Vanuatu NERFINISHED
spokenOn Espiritu Santo NERFINISHED
Santo Island NERFINISHED
subclassOf North-Central Vanuatu language NERFINISHED
usedBy Tolomako people NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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