Jah Hut language

E783505

The Jah Hut language is an indigenous Austroasiatic language spoken by the Jah Hut people, an Orang Asli community in central Peninsular Malaysia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Jah Hut language canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aslian language
Austroasiatic language
associatedWith Jah Hut cultural identity
Jah Hut traditional religion
closelyRelatedTo Semai language NERFINISHED
Temiar language NERFINISHED
communityType rural communities
continent Asia
country Malaysia
documentationStatus partially documented
ethnicGroup Jah Hut people NERFINISHED
family Austroasiatic NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Jah Het
Jah Hut NERFINISHED
Jah Hüt
hasDialect Krau Jah Hut
Simpang Jah Hut
Temerloh Jah Hut
hasLexicalSource native Aslian roots
hasLoanwordsFrom Malay
Thai NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature limited inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasal vowels
rich consonant inventory
hasResourceType folklore collections
grammatical sketches
wordlists
ISO639-3 jah
languageFamilyBranch Northern Aslian NERFINISHED
languageStatus endangered language
linguisticTypology analytic language
macroArea Southeast Asia NERFINISHED
primaryContactLanguage Malay NERFINISHED
region central Peninsular Malaysia
spokenBy Jah Hut people NERFINISHED
Orang Asli NERFINISHED
spokenIn Jerantut District NERFINISHED
Pahang NERFINISHED
Temerloh District NERFINISHED
subfamily Aslian NERFINISHED
subjectTo language shift to Malay
usedIn daily communication within Jah Hut communities
oral literature
traditional rituals
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.