Kedang (Lembata)
E682542
Kedang (Lembata) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kedang people on Lembata Island in eastern Indonesia.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName | Kedang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Flores–Lembata subgroup of Central Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Lamaholot language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coexistsWith |
Indonesian language
ⓘ
Lamaholot language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable (reported) ⓘ |
| glottologName | Kedang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeClassification | sometimes grouped with Lamaholot dialect cluster ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Kedang traditional religion and customs ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
oral literature of Kedang people
ⓘ
traditional rituals of Kedang people ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Kedang people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | keda1252 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Lamaholot–Kedang contact area ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticDescription |
described in works by Robert H. Barnes
ⓘ
subject of descriptive and anthropological studies ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasNeighborLanguage |
Lamaholot
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
other Flores–Lembata languages ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported)
ⓘ
prenasalized stops (reported) ⓘ |
| hasResearchField |
Austronesian linguistics
ⓘ
anthropological linguistics ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | bilingualism with Indonesian is common ⓘ |
| hasTransmission | intergenerational transmission still present but under pressure ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
moderate number of consonant phonemes (reported)
ⓘ
moderate number of vowel phonemes (reported) ⓘ prepositions rather than postpositions (reported) ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | ksx ⓘ |
| isSpokenOn | Lembata Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Central Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
|
| languageGroup | Flores–Lembata languages ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Kedang people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
East Nusa Tenggara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Lembata Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication within Kedang communities ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | rarely used as medium of formal education ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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