Kâte language

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The Kâte language is an Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea, particularly in the Morobe Province region.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Papuan language of wider communication
natural language
basicWordOrder SOV
country Papua New Guinea
endangermentStatus vulnerable
family Austronesian
glottocode kate1253
glottologName Kate
hasAlternativeName Kate
Kâte of Morobe NERFINISHED
hasBibleTranslation partial
hasCaseMarking postpositions
hasDialects Northern Kâte NERFINISHED
Southern Kâte NERFINISHED
Western Kâte NERFINISHED
Yagomi Kâte NERFINISHED
hasInclusiveExclusiveDistinction true
hasLinguisticArea Huon Gulf area NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNumberDistinction dual
plural
singular
trial
hasPersonDistinction first person
third person
hasPersonDistinction second person
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
languageCodeISO639-3 kmg
locatedNear Finschhafen NERFINISHED
Lae NERFINISHED
region Morobe Province NERFINISHED
spokenIn Huon Peninsula NERFINISHED
Morobe Province NERFINISHED
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
subclassOf Huon Gulf language NERFINISHED
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
subgroup Huon Gulf NERFINISHED
North New Guinea NERFINISHED
Oceanic
Western Oceanic NERFINISHED
usedAsLinguaFranca true
usedBy Kâte people NERFINISHED
usedIn Lutheran missions in Morobe Province
usedInEducation mission schools
usedInReligion Lutheran church NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Huon Gulf languages hasLanguage Kâte language