Ponosakan language

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The Ponosakan language is an endangered Austronesian language traditionally spoken by a small community in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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Label Occurrences
Ponosakan language canonical 2

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
endangered language
belongsToLinguisticArea Philippine-type languages of Sulawesi
branch Philippine languages
classification Gorontalo–Mongondow subgroup NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
Mongondow language NERFINISHED
continent Asia
country Indonesia
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangermentCause language shift to Indonesian
language shift to Manado Malay
ethnicGroup Ponosakan people NERFINISHED
family Austronesian NERFINISHED
hasAgeProfile mostly elderly speakers
hasAlternativeName Bahasa Ponosakan NERFINISHED
hasDomain home and community use (residual)
hasHistoricalContactWith other Philippine-type languages of northern Sulawesi
hasLinguisticFeature Austronesian alignment patterns
rich verbal morphology
verb-initial word order tendencies
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
typical Austronesian consonant inventory
hasRevitalizationEfforts community-based documentation projects
isMinorityLanguageIn Indonesia NERFINISHED
languageCodeISO639-3 pns
languageFamilyHigher Austronesian languages
languageShiftTo Indonesian NERFINISHED
Manado Malay NERFINISHED
macroArea Papunesia
numberOfSpeakers very few remaining speakers
region northern Sulawesi
spokenBy small community in northern Sulawesi
spokenIn North Sulawesi Province NERFINISHED
status severely endangered
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
threatenedBy dominance of Indonesian in education
urbanization and migration
traditionalArea Bolaang Mongondow region NERFINISHED
UNESCOStatus severely endangered (reported in surveys of Sulawesi languages)
usedFor ritual speech
traditional oral literature
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.

Minahasa Peninsula hasLanguage Ponosakan language
Minahasan people language Ponosakan language