Kula

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Kula is a Papuan language spoken on Alor Island in eastern Indonesia, belonging to the Alor–Pantar language family.

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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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