Norsup

E616029

Norsup is an Oceanic language spoken in Vanuatu, primarily associated with communities on the island of Malakula.

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Norsup canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Malakula language
Oceanic language
associatedWithCommunity Norsup community on Malakula NERFINISHED
belongsToSubgroup Central Vanuatu languages NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo other Malakula Oceanic languages
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu NERFINISHED
hasLanguageStatus minority language in Vanuatu
vulnerable language
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasNumberOfSpeakers a few thousand speakers (approximate)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (typical of many Malakula languages)
hasTypology SVO word order
isEndangered true
ISO639-3Code nsp
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageOf indigenous people of Malakula
locatedInLinguisticArea Vanuatu linguistic area NERFINISHED
region Malampa Province NERFINISHED
spokenIn Vanuatu NERFINISHED
spokenOnIsland Malakula NERFINISHED
subfamily Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication in local communities
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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