Bilua

E533108

Bilua is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on Vella Lavella Island in the Solomon Islands.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bilua canonical 4
Mbilua 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Oceanic language ⓘ
Papuan language ⓘ
language ⓘ
continent Oceania ⓘ
country Solomon Islands ⓘ
dataAsOf early 21st century ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicity Bilua people ⓘ
glottologCode bilu1245 ⓘ
glottologName Bilua ⓘ
hasAlignmentType nominative-accusative ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Bilua (Vella Lavella) ⓘ
linked to: Vella Lavella

Vella Lavella ⓘ
hasClauseStructure postpositional phrases ⓘ
hasDialects none or not well-documented ⓘ
hasDocumentation descriptive grammars ⓘ
lexicons ⓘ
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking ⓘ
verb-final ⓘ
hasMorphologyType agglutinative ⓘ
hasNominalClassification gender-like distinctions ⓘ
hasNumberOfSpeakers approximately 9000 ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
simple consonant inventory ⓘ
hasStressPattern predictable stress ⓘ
hasVerbalMorphology rich tense-aspect-mood system ⓘ
hasWordOrder SOV ⓘ
iso639-3Code blb ⓘ
languageContactWith English ⓘ
Solomon Islands Pijin ⓘ
languageFamily Central Solomon languages ⓘ
Indo-Pacific languages ⓘ
Papuan languages ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone UTC+11 ⓘ
macroArea Papunesia ⓘ
neighboringLanguages Lavukaleve ⓘ
Savosavo ⓘ
Touo ⓘ
primaryLanguageOf Vella Lavella communities ⓘ
region Vella Lavella Island ⓘ
spokenIn Solomon Islands ⓘ
Vella Lavella Island ⓘ
subclassOf Central Solomon language ⓘ
usedFor daily communication ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

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

Bilua language → hasAlternativeName → Mbilua ⓘ
linked to: Bilua
Bilua → glottologName → Bilua ⓘ
Vella Lavella Island → hasSettlement → Mbilua ⓘ
linked to: Bilua