Kove
E619351
Kove is an Austronesian language spoken in coastal communities of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kove canonical | 3 |
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ language of Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Papunesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| ethnologueStatus | living language ⓘ |
| glottologName | Kove ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Kove language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kove of New Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
subsistence fishing communities
ⓘ
traditional maritime culture ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | kove1238 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticClassificationSource |
Ethnologue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glottolog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | moderately agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported)
ⓘ
simple consonant inventory (relative to neighboring languages) ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation |
bilingualism with Tok Pisin
ⓘ
increasing influence from Tok Pisin ⓘ |
| hasTypology | head-initial language ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | kvc ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Papuan Tip and Bismarck Archipelago linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| languageGroup | Oceanic ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSubgroup |
Meso-Melanesian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Oceanic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages |
Mangseng
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Motu (as a wider regional lingua franca) NERFINISHED ⓘ Nakanai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
New Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West New Britain Province NERFINISHED ⓘ coastal areas ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
New Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ coastal communities of New Britain ⓘ |
| usedAs | vernacular language in Kove communities ⓘ |
| usedBy | Kove people ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.