Ulithian

E94849

Ulithian is a Micronesian language spoken primarily on Ulithi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia, closely related to the Carolinian language.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Ulithian language 3
Ulithian people 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Micronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
belongsTo Micronesian languages
surface form: Caroline Islands language group
closelyRelatedTo Carolinian language NERFINISHED
coOfficialOrCommonLanguageWith English
Yapese
country Federated States of Micronesia NERFINISHED
endangermentStatus vulnerable
geographicContext Caroline Islands NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Ulithi
Ulithian
surface form: Ulithian language
hasDialects Asor Ulithian
Falalop Ulithian
hasDomain kinship terminology
marine environment vocabulary
traditional navigation terminology
hasLinguisticAncestor Proto-Austronesian NERFINISHED
Proto-Micronesian
Proto-Oceanic language
surface form: Proto-Oceanic
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
hasSpeakerCommunitySize small island community
ISO639-3Code uli
isTaughtIn local schools on Ulithi Atoll
languageFamily Austronesian NERFINISHED
Micronesian
Oceanic
partOf Yapese languages continuum
primaryRegion Ulithi Atoll NERFINISHED
region Western Pacific NERFINISHED
regionType atoll language
sharesLexiconWith Carolinian language NERFINISHED
Satawalese language
surface form: Satawalese

Woleaian
spokenIn Federated States of Micronesia NERFINISHED
Micronesia NERFINISHED
Ulithi Atoll NERFINISHED
Yap State
subgroupOf Carolinian
surface form: Carolinian languages
usedBy Ulithian self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ulithian people
usedFor daily communication
local education
traditional oral narratives
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (8)

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

Carolinian closelyRelatedTo Ulithian
Ulithian hasAlternativeName Ulithian
this entity surface form: Ulithian language
this entity surface form: Ulithian language
Yapese hasNeighborLanguage Ulithian
Carolinean languages hasPart Ulithian
this entity surface form: Ulithian language
Micronesians hasSubgroup Ulithian
this entity surface form: Ulithian people
Yap State officialLanguage Ulithian
Ulithian usedBy Ulithian self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ulithian people