Teiwa language

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Teiwa language is a Papuan language spoken by the Teiwa people on Pantar Island in eastern Indonesia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language
natural language
belongsTo Papuan languages of the Alor-Pantar family
continent Asia
country Indonesia
hasAlignmentType nominative-accusative alignment
hasAlternativeName Tewa (variant spelling) NERFINISHED
hasBasicClauseType transitive and intransitive clauses
hasDomain Papuan languages of Indonesia
hasEthnicGroup Teiwa people NERFINISHED
hasGeographicDistribution northwestern Pantar Island
hasGrammaticalFeature limited nominal inflection
rich verbal morphology
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Indonesian language NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
verb-final language
hasMajorReferenceGrammar Teiwa (2010 grammar by Marian Klamer)
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasNumberOfSpeakers a few hundred
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple syllable structure
small consonant inventory
hasResearcher Marian Klamer NERFINISHED
hasStatus local community language
hasWordOrder SOV
isEndangered true
isMinorityLanguageIn Indonesia NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code twe
isSpokenNatively true
languageFamily Alor-Pantar languages NERFINISHED
Timor-Alor-Pantar languages NERFINISHED
locatedIn Lesser Sunda Islands
Southeast Asia
neighboringLanguages Abui language NERFINISHED
Kaera language
Sar language NERFINISHED
region Alor-Pantar region NERFINISHED
Pantar Island NERFINISHED
spokenBy Teiwa people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Eastern Indonesia NERFINISHED
Indonesia
Pantar Island NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication within Teiwa communities
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.

Alor archipelago hasLanguage Teiwa language
Pantar hasLanguage Teiwa language