Kedang (Lembata)

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Kedang (Lembata) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kedang people on Lembata Island in eastern Indonesia.

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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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Kedang language hasAlternativeName Kedang (Lembata)