Southern Arapesh language

E1021848

The Southern Arapesh language is a Papuan language of the Torricelli family spoken by the Arapesh people of northern Papua New Guinea.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Arapesh (Southern) 1
Southern Arapesh language canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
country Papua New Guinea ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicGroup Arapesh people ⓘ
family Torricelli language family ⓘ
glottologCode sout2947 ⓘ
glottologName Southern Arapesh ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Arapesh (Southern) ⓘ
Bumbita Arapesh ⓘ
Southern Arapesh ⓘ
hasDialects Bumbita dialect ⓘ
Wautogik dialect ⓘ
Weri dialect ⓘ
Womsis dialect ⓘ
Wutun dialect ⓘ
hasLinguisticResearch grammatical description by linguists of Papuan languages ⓘ
hasMorphologyType agglutinative ⓘ
hasNeighboringLanguage Abelam language ⓘ
Abuʼ Arapesh language ⓘ
Boikin language ⓘ
Mountain Arapesh language ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone absent ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ
vowel length distinctions ⓘ
hasTypologicalFeature gender system ⓘ
noun classes ⓘ
prefixal morphology ⓘ
influencedBy English ⓘ
Tok Pisin ⓘ
ISO639-3Code ape ⓘ
isPartOf Torricelli language phylum ⓘ
languageBranch Arapesh branch ⓘ
languageFamily Torricelli ⓘ
primaryWordOrder SOV ⓘ
region East Sepik Province ⓘ
Sandaun Province ⓘ
spokenIn Papua New Guinea ⓘ
northern Papua New Guinea ⓘ
subclassOf Arapesh languages ⓘ
Papuan languages ⓘ
Torricelli languages ⓘ
usedBy Arapesh communities in village contexts ⓘ
usedFor everyday communication within Arapesh communities ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Arapesh → speaks → Southern Arapesh language ⓘ
Southern Arapesh language → hasAlternativeName → Arapesh (Southern) ⓘ
linked to: Southern Arapesh language