Kilivila

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Kilivila is an Austronesian language spoken by the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea.

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Label Occurrences
Kilivila canonical 2

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
alternateName Kilibila NERFINISHED
Kiriwina NERFINISHED
associatedWith Trobriand cricket NERFINISHED
Trobriand yam exchange rituals NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Dobu language NERFINISHED
Muyuw language NERFINISHED
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
documentedIn descriptive grammars
ethnographic studies of the Trobriand Islanders
lexicons and dictionaries
ethnicGroup Trobriand Islanders NERFINISHED
hasCulturalRole marker of Trobriand identity
medium of customary law and dispute resolution
medium of oral tradition
hasDomain agricultural vocabulary
kinship terminology
traditional magic and ritual terminology
hasLinguisticFeature inclusive-exclusive first person plural distinction
numeral classifiers
possessive classifiers
rich verbal morphology
hasNotableResearcher Bronisław Malinowski NERFINISHED
Gunter Senft NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system
simple consonant inventory
languageCodeISO639-3 kij
languageFamily Austronesian languages
partOf Papuan Tip Cluster of Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
region Trobriand Islands NERFINISHED
spokenIn Milne Bay Province NERFINISHED
Trobriand Islands NERFINISHED
status local lingua franca in the Trobriand Islands
subfamily Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
subgroup Papuan Tip languages NERFINISHED
usedBy Trobriand Islander communities
usedFor everyday communication
oral literature
traditional ceremonies
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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