Sitangkai Sama

E700460

Sitangkai Sama is a dialect of the Central Sama language spoken primarily by Sama communities in and around Sitangkai in the southern Philippines.

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Label Occurrences
Sitangkai Sama canonical 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Central Sama
associatedEthnicity Sama NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Sibutu Sama NERFINISHED
Simunul Sama NERFINISHED
other Central Sama dialects
contactWith Cebuano language NERFINISHED
Filipino language
Tausug language NERFINISHED
country Philippines
domain maritime communities
endangeredStatus vulnerable
geographicSetting coastal communities
island communities
hasAlternativeName Sitangkai Central Sama NERFINISHED
Sitangkai Samal NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature Austronesian alignment
rich verbal morphology
vowel length distinctions
hasMorphosyntacticFeature focus system
preposed clitics
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive geminate consonants
five-vowel system
languageBranch Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageGroup Sama–Bajaw NERFINISHED
partOf Central Sama dialect continuum NERFINISHED
primaryLocalCenter Sitangkai Island NERFINISHED
region Sulu Archipelago NERFINISHED
spokenBy Sama communities in and around Sitangkai
Sama people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Philippines
Sitangkai NERFINISHED
Tawi-Tawi Province NERFINISHED
southern Philippines
subclassOf Austronesian languages
Central Sama language NERFINISHED
Sama–Bajaw languages NERFINISHED
typicalWordOrder VOS
VSO
usedAlongside Cebuano NERFINISHED
Filipino NERFINISHED
Tausug NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication
local trade communication
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Central Sama hasDialect Sitangkai Sama