Namakura

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Namakura is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Efate in Vanuatu.

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Namakura canonical 1

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instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
alternateName Namaker NERFINISHED
Namukur NERFINISHED
Nguna NERFINISHED
Nguna-Namakura NERFINISHED
North Efate NERFINISHED
belongsTo Central Vanuatu linkage
closelyRelatedTo Nguna language NERFINISHED
South Efate language NERFINISHED
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
geographicDistribution northern and western Efate region
hasDialects Namakura proper dialect
Nguna dialect NERFINISHED
Pele dialect NERFINISHED
hasGrammaticalFeature possessive classifiers
prepositional phrase markers
subject proclitics on verbs
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammar studies
dictionary and wordlists
hasMorphologyType moderately agglutinative
hasNumeralSystem decimal-based numeral system
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
hasStressPattern primarily penultimate stress
hasWordOrder SVO
ISO639-3 nmk
languageBranch Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageGroup Oceanic
region Central Vanuatu NERFINISHED
spokenBy Namakura-speaking communities of Efate
spokenIn Vanuatu NERFINISHED
spokenOn Efate NERFINISHED
offshore islands near Efate
subfamilyOf Central Vanuatu languages NERFINISHED
Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
Southern Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication
usedIn local education and literacy projects
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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