Blagar

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Blagar is a Papuan language spoken primarily on Pura and nearby islands in eastern Indonesia, belonging to the Alor–Pantar language family.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language
language
continent Asia
country Indonesia
documentedIn descriptive grammars of Alor–Pantar languages
endangermentStatus vulnerable
family Alor–Pantar NERFINISHED
glottologCode blag1246
glottologName Blagar NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Belagar NERFINISHED
Pura language NERFINISHED
hasDialect Kaera (sometimes classified separately)
Pura Blagar NERFINISHED
Tereweng Blagar NERFINISHED
hasFeature complex deictic contrasts
numeral classifiers (limited)
prepositions
rich demonstrative system
verb-final clitics
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (analyzed in some descriptions)
simple consonant inventory
hasResearcher Gary Holton NERFINISHED
Marian Klamer NERFINISHED
hasTypologicalArea Alor–Pantar linguistic area NERFINISHED
iso639-3Code beu
languageFamily Trans–New Guinea (proposed) NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language
lexifierContactLanguage Alor Malay NERFINISHED
Indonesian NERFINISHED
macroArea Papunesia NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Adang NERFINISHED
Alor Malay NERFINISHED
Teiwa NERFINISHED
primaryReligionOfSpeakers Christianity (minority)
Islam (majority) NERFINISHED
region eastern Indonesia NERFINISHED
spokenBy Blagar people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Alor Archipelago NERFINISHED
East Nusa Tenggara NERFINISHED
Pura Island NERFINISHED
subclassOf Alor–Pantar language NERFINISHED
usedAs community language
home language
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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