Ura language

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Ura language is an endangered Oceanic language traditionally spoken by a small community on the island of Erromango in Vanuatu.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ura language canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Erromangan language
Oceanic language
endangered language
belongsTo South Vanuatu subgroup NERFINISHED
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu NERFINISHED
endangermentLevel severely endangered
glottocode uraa1241
hasAlternativeName Erromangan Ura NERFINISHED
Ifo NERFINISHED
Ifo-Ura NERFINISHED
Ura of Erromango NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder SVO (subject–verb–object)
hasDomain traditional oral culture
hasEndangermentCause intergenerational transmission breakdown
language shift to dominant regional languages
small speaker population
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasNeighborLanguage Sye (Erromangan) language NERFINISHED
Sye language NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported)
typical Oceanic consonant inventory
hasSpeakerTrend declining number of speakers
hasUse intra-community communication
isClassifiedBy Ethnologue NERFINISHED
Glottolog NERFINISHED
isDocumentedIn linguistic fieldwork on Erromango
ISO639-3 uur
isPartOf Austronesian language area of Vanuatu
isSpokenAlongside Sye language
isSpokenBy small community on Erromango
languageBranch Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageGroup South Vanuatu languages NERFINISHED
Southern Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
lexicalSimilarityWith Sye language NERFINISHED
macroArea Papunesia
region Erromango NERFINISHED
shiftedTo Bislama NERFINISHED
English
Sye language NERFINISHED
spokenIn Erromango NERFINISHED
Vanuatu NERFINISHED
status endangered
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (2)

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Erromango hasLanguage Ura language
Baining people usesLanguage Ura language