Papitalai language

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The Papitalai language is an Oceanic language spoken on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, belonging to the Admiralty Islands subgroup of Austronesian languages.

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instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
family Austronesian NERFINISHED
geneticClassification Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Oceanic > Admiralty Islands
glottologName Papitalai NERFINISHED
group Oceanic
hasAlternativeName Papitalai NERFINISHED
hasDomainOfUse home
local community
hasGlottocode papi1255
hasISO639-3Code pat
hasLinguisticFeature inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns
prepositions rather than case marking
serial verb constructions
use of possessive classifiers
hasMacroArea Papunesia
hasMorphologyType predominantly analytic
hasNeighbouringLanguage Lele language (Manus) NERFINISHED
Loniu language NERFINISHED
Nyindrou language NERFINISHED
Titan language
hasPhonologicalFeature distinction between short and long vowels
small consonant inventory typical of Oceanic languages
hasTypology SVO word order
isClassifiedBy Ethnologue NERFINISHED
Glottolog NERFINISHED
isEndangered true
isIncludedIn surveys of Manus Island languages
isPartOf Admiralty Islands linguistic area NERFINISHED
isSpokenBy Papitalai community
isSpokenIn Papitalai village NERFINISHED
coastal areas of Manus Island
isSpokenOn Manus Island NERFINISHED
isSubjectOf descriptive studies in Oceanic linguistics
isVernacularOf Papitalai village NERFINISHED
languageBranch Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
locatedInTheAdministrativeDivision Manus District NERFINISHED
region Manus Province NERFINISHED
subclassOf Admiralty Islands languages NERFINISHED
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
subgroup Admiralty Islands NERFINISHED
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.

Admiralty Islands languages hasMember Papitalai language
Manus people traditionalLanguage Papitalai language