Abui language

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The Abui language is a Papuan language spoken by the Abui people on Alor Island in eastern Indonesia, known for its complex morphology and typological distinctiveness.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Alor–Pantar language
Papuan language
natural language
alignmentType split alignment
contactLanguage Alor Malay NERFINISHED
Indonesian NERFINISHED
continent Asia
country Indonesia
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Abui people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Abui (Alor) NERFINISHED
Abui Tanga NERFINISHED
Abui Tasif NERFINISHED
hasCaseMarking postpositional marking
hasDialect Northern Abui (reported)
Southern Abui (reported)
hasDocumentationType dictionary
grammar
text collections
hasGlottocode abui1241
hasGlottologName Abui NERFINISHED
hasISO6393Code abz
hasLanguageShiftPressureFrom Indonesian NERFINISHED
hasMajorResearcher František Kratochvíl NERFINISHED
Marian Klamer NERFINISHED
hasMorphosyntacticFeature derivational verbal morphology
possessive marking
rich verbal agreement
valency-changing morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported)
moderate consonant inventory
hasWordOrder SOV (tendency)
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangered true
languageFamily Alor–Pantar language family NERFINISHED
macroFamily Trans–New Guinea languages (proposed) NERFINISHED
morphologyFeature complex morphology
morphologyType polysynthetic
region eastern Indonesia
spokenBy several thousand speakers (approximate)
spokenIn Alor Island NERFINISHED
East Nusa Tenggara NERFINISHED
Indonesia
typologicalFeature head-marking
verb-final tendency
usedIn daily communication within Abui communities
traditional oral literature

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Alor archipelago hasLanguage Abui language