Sawila

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Sawila is a Papuan language spoken on Alor Island in eastern Indonesia, known for its complex verb morphology and membership in the Alor–Pantar language family.

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instanceOf Alor–Pantar language
Papuan language
natural language
continent Asia
country Indonesia
endangermentStatus vulnerable
glottologCode sawi1256
glottologName Sawila NERFINISHED
hasAlternateName Tanglapui NERFINISHED
hasDialect Sawila proper
Tanglapui dialects
hasDocumentationType grammatical description
lexicon
text collections
hasLinguisticFeature agreement marking on verbs
clause chaining
complex TAM (tense–aspect–mood) system
complex verb morphology
prefixal morphology on verbs
pronominal indexing on verbs
rich verbal inflection
serial verb constructions
suffixal morphology on verbs
hasNeighboringLanguage Abui NERFINISHED
Kamang NERFINISHED
Wersing NERFINISHED
hasOrderTendencies SOV
hasResearchFocus TAM system
alignment and argument structure
pronominal paradigms
verb morphology
ISO639-3Code swt
isPartOf Alor languages NERFINISHED
Papuan languages of the Lesser Sunda Islands NERFINISHED
languageFamily Alor–Pantar NERFINISHED
languagePhylum Trans–New Guinea hypothesis (disputed) NERFINISHED
locatedInLanguageArea Alor–Pantar linguistic area NERFINISHED
macroArea Papunesia
region eastern Alor Island
spokenBy Sawila ethnic group NERFINISHED
spokenIn Alor Island NERFINISHED
East Nusa Tenggara NERFINISHED
Indonesia
subclassOf Alor–Pantar language family NERFINISHED
Papuan languages of Indonesia NERFINISHED
typologicalProfile predominantly head-marking
verb-final tendencies
writingSystem Latin script (for linguistic description)

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