Wuvulu-Aua language

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The Wuvulu-Aua language is an Oceanic language spoken on the Wuvulu and Aua islands of Papua New Guinea, known for its complex verbal morphology and distinctive phonological features.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Wuvulu-Aua language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
alternateName Maty
Wuvulu NERFINISHED
Wuvulu-Aua NERFINISHED
basicWordOrder SVO
country Papua New Guinea
documentedIn descriptive grammars
linguistic fieldwork studies
endangeredStatus vulnerable
family Austronesian NERFINISHED
glottocode wuvu1239
group Oceanic
hasFeature complex verbal morphology
contrastive vowel length
derivational verbal morphology
distinctive phonology
inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns
numeral classifiers
object agreement on verbs
possessive classifiers
prenasalized stops
prepositions rather than postpositions
rich verbal inflection
subject agreement on verbs
verb serialization
hasPhonemeInventory five-vowel system
small consonant inventory
iso639-3Code wuv
languageOf Wuvulu people NERFINISHED
macroArea Papunesia NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Manus languages
Seimat language NERFINISHED
region Manus Province NERFINISHED
spokenIn Aua Island NERFINISHED
Wuvulu Island NERFINISHED
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Admiralty Islands languages NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
head-initial
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
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 Wuvulu-Aua language
Manus people traditionalLanguage Wuvulu-Aua language