Blagar language

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Blagar language is a Papuan language spoken by communities on Pura and nearby islands in Indonesia’s Alor archipelago.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language
language
classificationStatus well-attested within Alor–Pantar family
country Indonesia
documentedIn comparative studies of Timor–Alor–Pantar languages
descriptive grammars of Alor–Pantar languages
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottocode blag1246
hasAlternativeName Belagar NERFINISHED
Blagar (Pura) NERFINISHED
Pura NERFINISHED
Tereweng NERFINISHED
hasContactWith Alor Malay NERFINISHED
Indonesian language
hasDialect Alor Blagar NERFINISHED
Pura Blagar
Retta (sometimes classified as a separate language)
Tereweng Blagar NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported for some dialects)
moderately large consonant inventory
hasResearcher Gary Holton NERFINISHED
Marian Klamer NERFINISHED
iso639-3Code beu
languageFamily Papuan
Timor–Alor–Pantar NERFINISHED
lexifierInfluence Indonesian loanwords
linguisticArea Eastern Indonesia NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Adang language NERFINISHED
Alor languages NERFINISHED
Teiwa language NERFINISHED
primaryDomain daily communication in Blagar communities
region Alor Regency NERFINISHED
spokenIn Alor Island NERFINISHED
Alor archipelago NERFINISHED
East Nusa Tenggara NERFINISHED
Indonesia
Pantar Island NERFINISHED
Pura Island NERFINISHED
spokenOn small offshore islands near Pura
status minority language
subfamilyOf Alor–Pantar languages NERFINISHED
Timor–Alor–Pantar languages NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature SOV word order (subject–object–verb)
agglutinative morphology
rich verbal morphology
usedByEthnicGroup Blagar people NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Alor archipelago hasLanguage Blagar language