Kosraean

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Kosraean is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the Micronesian island of Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kosraean canonical 7

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language ⓘ
Micronesian language ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo other Micronesian Oceanic languages ⓘ
country Federated States of Micronesia ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicity Kosraean people ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Kosrae ⓘ
linked to: Kosrae State

Kusaian ⓘ
Kusaie ⓘ
Kusaiean ⓘ
hasDomain local governance ⓘ
religious practice ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ
hasGlottocode kosr1238 ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
glottal stop phoneme ⓘ
hasRegulatingBody Kosrae Department of Education ⓘ
hasWordOrder SVO ⓘ
ISO639-3Code kos ⓘ
languageFamily Austronesian languages ⓘ
Micronesian languages ⓘ
Oceanic languages ⓘ
numberOfSpeakers approximately 8000 ⓘ
region Kosrae ⓘ
linked to: Kosrae State
spokenIn Federated States of Micronesia ⓘ
Kosrae ⓘ
linked to: Kosrae State

Micronesia ⓘ
status indigenous language ⓘ
minority language ⓘ
subclassOf Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ
usedFor daily communication on Kosrae ⓘ
usedIn education (to a limited extent) ⓘ
local media (to a limited extent) ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (7)

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