Wersing

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Wersing is a lesser-known Papuan language spoken on the Alor–Pantar archipelago in eastern Indonesia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Alor–Pantar language
Papuan language
natural language
continent Asia
country Indonesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Kawating NERFINISHED
Kawating (Wersing) NERFINISHED
Kawating-Wersing NERFINISHED
Kawatingh NERFINISHED
Wersing-Kawating NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticResearchOn morphology
phonology
syntax
ISO639-3Code kvw
languageContactWith Indonesian NERFINISHED
Malay NERFINISHED
languageFamily Alor–Pantar languages NERFINISHED
Papuan languages
languageStatus minority language
lexicalBorrowingFrom Indonesian
Malay NERFINISHED
locatedIn Lesser Sunda Islands
Southeast Asia
macroArea Papunesia
neighboringLanguage Abui
Adang NERFINISHED
Blagar NERFINISHED
Teiwa NERFINISHED
region Alor Island NERFINISHED
Pantar Island NERFINISHED
spokenBy Wersing people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Alor–Pantar archipelago NERFINISHED
eastern Indonesia NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature SOV word order
head-final language
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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