West Tanna
E655579
West Tanna is an Austronesian language spoken on Tanna Island in Vanuatu, more widely known under the name Lenakel.
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ Vanuatu language ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Lenakel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToLinguisticArea | South Vanuatu linguistic area ⓘ |
| classificationStatus | well-documented Oceanic language ⓘ |
| country | Vanuatu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnologueName | Lenakel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottologCode | lena1239 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Lenakel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling | West Tana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Lenakel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Netwar NERFINISHED ⓘ Nivhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
local education (informal)
ⓘ
local religious practices ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | moderately agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasResourceType |
descriptive grammar
ⓘ
dictionary ⓘ text collections ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | tnl ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| languageSubfamily | Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSubgroup |
Oceanic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Vanuatu languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Oceanic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Kwamera
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Tanna NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitesands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Tafea Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Tanna Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vanuatu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | indigenous communities of western Tanna ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.