Blanga

E538595

Blanga is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Blanga canonical 2
Blablanga 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ
language ⓘ
belongsTo Santa Isabel languages ⓘ
country Solomon Islands ⓘ
endangermentStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicity Blanga people ⓘ
geographicDistribution coastal villages of Santa Isabel ⓘ
northwestern Santa Isabel Island ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Blablanga ⓘ
linked to: Blanga

Blablanga language ⓘ
Blanga language ⓘ
linked to: Blang language
hasDialects northern Blanga ⓘ
southern Blanga ⓘ
hasDomainRestriction home and village domains ⓘ
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammar studies ⓘ
lexicographic work ⓘ
phonological analysis ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive prenasalized stops ⓘ
small vowel inventory ⓘ
hasSpeakerCommunity rural communities ⓘ
influencedBy English ⓘ
Solomon Islands Pijin ⓘ
iso639-3Code blp ⓘ
languageFamily Austronesian languages ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
Northwest Solomonic languages ⓘ
Oceanic languages ⓘ
languageShiftTowards English ⓘ
Solomon Islands Pijin ⓘ
neighboringLanguage Cheke Holo ⓘ
Kokota ⓘ
Zabana ⓘ
notWidelyUsedIn formal education ⓘ
national media ⓘ
region Santa Isabel Province ⓘ
spokenIn Solomon Islands ⓘ
spokenOn Santa Isabel Island ⓘ
status minority language ⓘ
subclassOf Northwest Solomonic language ⓘ
typologicalFeature SVO word order ⓘ
phonemic vowel length absent ⓘ
prepositional language ⓘ
usedFor everyday communication ⓘ
local trade ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Blanga → hasAlternativeName → Blablanga ⓘ
linked to: Blanga
Blanga people → ethnonym → Blanga ⓘ