Western Pantar
E815005
Western Pantar is a Papuan language spoken on Pantar Island in eastern Indonesia, known for its complex verb morphology and membership in the Alor–Pantar language family.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alor–Pantar language
ⓘ
Papuan language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Lamma
NERFINISHED
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Lamma language NERFINISHED ⓘ Pantar Barat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
articles on Alor–Pantar languages
ⓘ
descriptive grammars of Western Pantar ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| glottocode | west2574 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Western Pantar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlignment | nominative–accusative ⓘ |
| hasClauseStructure | verb-initial in some clause types ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
SVO basic word order
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agreement prefixes on verbs ⓘ complex verb morphology ⓘ contrastive vowel length ⓘ head-marking morphology ⓘ rich pronominal system ⓘ |
| hasLexicalBorrowingFrom |
Indonesian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Malay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Adang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blagar NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaera NERFINISHED ⓘ Sar NERFINISHED ⓘ Teiwa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
five-vowel system ⓘ |
| hasPronounSystem | distinguishes clusivity in first person plural ⓘ |
| hasResearcher |
František Kratochvíl
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gary Holton NERFINISHED ⓘ Marian Klamer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | lev ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Alor–Pantar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Timor–Alor–Pantar languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| spokenBy | ethnic groups of western Pantar Island ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
East Nusa Tenggara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Pantar Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenOn | Pantar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Alor–Pantar language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication in western Pantar communities ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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