Tennet language
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Tennet language is a Surmic language spoken by the Tennet people of South Sudan.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Sudanic language
ⓘ
Surmic language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| classificationAuthority |
Ethnologue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glottolog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | South Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tennet people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | tenn1241 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Tennet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Tenet
ⓘ
Tennet (Surmic) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects | Tennet ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
SOV basic word order
ⓘ
complex verb morphology ⓘ noun class-like gender system ⓘ tone language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
consonant length distinctions
ⓘ
contrastive vowel length ⓘ lexical tone ⓘ |
| hasSubjectField |
African linguistics
ⓘ
Surmic studies ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature |
head-final noun phrases
ⓘ
postpositions rather than prepositions ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | tex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Eastern Sudanic languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nilo-Saharan languages ⓘ Surmic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageStatus | minority language in South Sudan ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages |
Boya language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Didinga language NERFINISHED ⓘ Murle language NERFINISHED ⓘ Toposa language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Eastern Equatoria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southeastern South Sudan ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tennet people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenByPopulationStatus | small population ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Eastern Equatoria State
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | South Surmic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication among Tennet people ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.