Kula
E816366
Kula is a Papuan language spoken on Alor Island in eastern Indonesia, belonging to the Alor–Pantar language family.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alor–Pantar language
ⓘ
Papuan language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Papunesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | under-documented ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| geneticClassificationLevel | Alor–Pantar family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Kula (Tanglapui)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tanglapui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects | varieties spoken in different villages on Alor Island ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentCause |
language shift to Indonesian
ⓘ
small intergenerational transmission ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | tpg ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResourceType |
grammatical descriptions (limited)
ⓘ
text collections (limited) ⓘ wordlists ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported for some Alor–Pantar languages)
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory (relative to many Indo-European languages) ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | younger speakers shifting to Indonesian ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerPopulation | small number of speakers ⓘ |
| higherGeneticUnit | Trans–New Guinea (proposed, uncertain) ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Alor–Pantar language group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | descriptive linguistic studies on Papuan languages of Indonesia ⓘ |
| languageContactWith | Indonesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Alor–Pantar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Papuan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageShiftTo | Indonesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageStatus | endangered language ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Alor–Pantar linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Abui
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Adang NERFINISHED ⓘ Teiwa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | East Nusa Tenggara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchField |
Alor–Pantar comparative studies
ⓘ
Papuan linguistics ⓘ |
| spokenBy | indigenous communities on Alor Island ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Alor Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ eastern Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenNear | Pantar Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenOn | Alor Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology (tendency)
ⓘ
verb-final word order (tendency) ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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