West Tanna

E655579

West Tanna is an Austronesian language spoken on Tanna Island in Vanuatu, more widely known under the name Lenakel.

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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

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Lenakel hasAlternativeName West Tanna