Sawila
E815003
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.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| 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
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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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