Reel language

E940951

Reel language is a Western Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Atwot (Reel) people of South Sudan.

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Label Occurrences
Reel language canonical 1

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Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Western Nilotic language
language
natural language
country South Sudan NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Atwot NERFINISHED
Reel NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Atwot language NERFINISHED
Thok Atwot NERFINISHED
Thok Reel NERFINISHED
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable (approximate)
hasGlottocode atwo1241
hasGlottologName Atwot NERFINISHED
hasISO6393Code atu
hasLinguisticFeature tonal language
verb–subject–object word order (VSO)
hasMorphologicalType fusional
synthetic
hasNumberOfSpeakers tens of thousands (approximate)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tone distinctions
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language in South Sudan
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isRelatedTo Dinka language NERFINISHED
Nuer language NERFINISHED
isSpokenNear Dinka language NERFINISHED
Nuer language NERFINISHED
isSpokenPrimarilyBy Atwot people NERFINISHED
Reel people NERFINISHED
isUsedFor daily communication
traditional cultural practices
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan NERFINISHED
Nilotic
Western Nilotic NERFINISHED
region central South Sudan
spokenBy Atwot people NERFINISHED
Reel people
spokenIn Lakes State NERFINISHED
South Sudan
subclassOf Nilo-Saharan language
Nilotic language

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

Western Nilotic languages hasMember Reel language