Löyöp language

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The Löyöp language is an Oceanic language spoken by a small community in the Banks Islands of northern Vanuatu.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
approximateNumberOfSpeakers few hundred
belongsToSubgroup North–Central Vanuatu languages NERFINISHED
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Loyop NERFINISHED
Löyöp NERFINISHED
Löyöp (Banks Islands) NERFINISHED
hasBorrowingsFrom Bislama NERFINISHED
English NERFINISHED
French NERFINISHED
hasClauseStructure head-initial
hasDialect Löyöp village variety
hasDomain vernacular communication
hasLexicalOrigin Proto-Oceanic NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
prepositional language
hasMorphologyType moderately agglutinative
hasNeighbouringLanguage Lehali language NERFINISHED
Mwotlap language NERFINISHED
Vurës language NERFINISHED
hasNounClassification possessive classifiers
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
hasResearcher Alexandre François NERFINISHED
hasStressPattern primarily penultimate stress
hasWordOrder subject–verb–object
isMinorityLanguageIn Vanuatu NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code lop
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian

Oceanic
locatedOn Ureparapara Island NERFINISHED
region Banks Islands NERFINISHED
spokenBy small community
spokenIn Banks Islands NERFINISHED
Vanuatu NERFINISHED
northern Vanuatu
status local community language
subfamilyOf Austronesian languages NERFINISHED
Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
usedAlongside Bislama NERFINISHED
English NERFINISHED
French NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Banks Islands hasNotableLanguage Löyöp language