Dorig language

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

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
belongsTo Banks Islands subgroup of Northern Vanuatu languages NERFINISHED
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu NERFINISHED
ethnicity Dorig-speaking community
glottologCode dori1244
glottologName Dorig NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Proto-Austronesian language NERFINISHED
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
Proto-Oceanic language NERFINISHED
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Vera'a language NERFINISHED
Vurës language NERFINISHED
other Banks Islands languages
hasMorphologicalFeature possessive classifiers
subject proclitics
hasNeighbouringLanguage Koro language (Vanuatu) NERFINISHED
Olrat language NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
hasResearchBy Alexandre François NERFINISHED
hasTypologicalFeature inclusive-exclusive distinction in first person plural
number distinction in pronouns
rich pronominal system
isEndangered true
ISO639-3Code wwo
isPartOf Northern Vanuatu linguistic area NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
languageSubgroup Northern Vanuatu languages NERFINISHED
Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
Southern Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
locatedOn Banks Islands NERFINISHED
numberOfSpeakers small community
region Banks Islands NERFINISHED
spokenIn Banks Islands NERFINISHED
Vanuatu NERFINISHED
northern Vanuatu
spokenOn islands of northern Vanuatu
status minority language
vulnerable language
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Banks Islands hasNotableLanguage Dorig language