Kedang

E682540

Kedang is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Lembata Island in eastern Indonesia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kedang canonical 6
Kédang 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
belongsToEthnicGroup Kedang people ⓘ
country Indonesia ⓘ
hasAlternateName Kedang language ⓘ
Kedangese ⓘ
hasClauseType verb-initial in some constructions ⓘ
hasContactWith Indonesian ⓘ
Lamohang ⓘ
other Flores–Lembata languages ⓘ
hasISO6393Code ksx ⓘ
hasLinguisticArea Flores–Lembata area ⓘ
linked to: Sumba–Flores
hasMajorDescription Kedang: A Study of the Collective Thought of an Eastern Indonesian People ⓘ
hasMorphosyntacticAlignment nominative–accusative ⓘ
hasNumberOfSpeakers several thousand ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
five-vowel system ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ
hasResearcher Robert Barnes ⓘ
hasTypology analytic language ⓘ
hasWordOrder SVO ⓘ
isEndangered true ⓘ
islandGroup Lesser Sunda Islands ⓘ
languageFamily Austronesian languages ⓘ
primaryLocation Lembata Regency ⓘ
linked to: Lembata
region Nusa Tenggara Timur ⓘ
linked to: East Nusa Tenggara
spokenIn Indonesia ⓘ
spokenInRegion eastern Indonesia ⓘ
spokenOn Lembata Island ⓘ
linked to: Lembata
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

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

Kedang people → hasEndonym → Kedang ⓘ
Kedang people → hasExonym → Kédang ⓘ
linked to: Kedang
Kedangese → alternateName → Kedang ⓘ
Kedangese → alternateName → Kédang ⓘ
linked to: Kedang
Kedangese → glottologName → Kedang ⓘ