Gupapuyŋu

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Gupapuyŋu is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Yolŋu people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Gupapuyngu 3

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Yolŋu language
language
belongsToCulturalRegion Yolŋu homelands
country Australia
hasAlternativeName Gupapuyngu NERFINISHED
Gupapuyŋu language NERFINISHED
hasAssociatedPeople Gupapuyŋu clan NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder flexible word order
hasDialects Gupapuyŋu dialects
hasDomain kinship system terminology
songlines and sacred geography
traditional ecological knowledge
hasEthnicGroup Yolŋu NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode gupa1247
hasGlottologName Gupapuyngu NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code guf
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
suffixing language
hasMorphologicalFeature case-marking on nouns
rich verb inflection
hasNeighbouringLanguage Djambarrpuyŋu NERFINISHED
Gumatj NERFINISHED
Ritharrŋu NERFINISHED
Wangurri NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
lamino-dental consonants
retroflex consonants
hasStatus minority language
threatened language
isEndangered true
isIndigenousLanguageOf Australia NERFINISHED
isPartOf Yolŋu languages NERFINISHED
isSubjectOf linguistic documentation projects
isUsedIn bilingual education programs in Arnhem Land
languageFamily Yolŋu Matha NERFINISHED
region Northeast Arnhem Land NERFINISHED
spokenBy Yolŋu people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Arnhem Land NERFINISHED
Australia NERFINISHED
Northern Territory NERFINISHED
usedFor ceremonial contexts
daily communication in Yolŋu communities
oral tradition
song cycles
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Djambarrpuyngu hasDialect Gupapuyŋu
this entity surface form: Gupapuyngu
Yolngu Matha hasNotableVariety Gupapuyŋu
this entity surface form: Gupapuyngu
Yolngu Matha hasPart Gupapuyŋu
this entity surface form: Gupapuyngu