Teiwa
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Teiwa 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 (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alor–Pantar language
ⓘ
Papuan language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers | 3000 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
basic SOV word order
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clause-chaining constructions ⓘ complex verb morphology ⓘ contrastive tone is absent ⓘ lack of grammatical gender ⓘ no case marking on nouns ⓘ numeral classifiers ⓘ object indexing on verbs ⓘ phonemic vowel length ⓘ postpositions ⓘ prefixing verb morphology ⓘ productive reduplication ⓘ pronominal prefixes on verbs ⓘ rich verbal agreement ⓘ serial verb constructions ⓘ small phoneme inventory ⓘ suffixing verb morphology ⓘ switch-reference-like person indexing ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
agglutinative morphology
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head-marking language ⓘ |
| hasMajorDialect |
eastern Teiwa
NERFINISHED
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western Teiwa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringLanguage |
Abui
NERFINISHED
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Blagar NERFINISHED ⓘ Deing NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaera NERFINISHED ⓘ Klamu NERFINISHED ⓘ Nedebang NERFINISHED ⓘ Sar NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Pantar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReferenceGrammarBy | Marian Klamer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReferenceGrammarPublicationYear | 2010 GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasReferenceGrammarTitle | A Grammar of Teiwa GENERATED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Papuan languages of the Alor Archipelago ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy | Teiwa people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | twe ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Alor–Pantar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Timor–Alor–Pantar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | eastern Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
East Nusa Tenggara
NERFINISHED
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Indonesia ⓘ Pantar Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Timor–Alor–Pantar language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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surface form:
Latin script
|
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