Wamesa language

E695192

The Wamesa language is an Austronesian language spoken by indigenous communities in the West Papua region of Indonesia.

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Label Occurrences
Wamesa language canonical 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
country Indonesia ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
glottocode wame1241 ⓘ
glottologName Wamesa ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Wamesa-Wondama ⓘ
linked to: Wondama

Wandamen ⓘ
Wondama ⓘ
hasContactInfluenceFrom Indonesian language ⓘ
Papuan languages ⓘ
hasDialect Bintuni dialect ⓘ
Windesi dialect ⓘ
Wondama dialect ⓘ
hasLinguisticArea Papuan contact zone ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature subject agreement markers ⓘ
verbal prefixes ⓘ
verbal suffixes ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
prenasalized stops ⓘ
hasSpeakerNumberEstimate several thousand speakers ⓘ
isClassifiedBy Ethnologue ⓘ
Glottolog ⓘ
isEndangered true ⓘ
iso639-3Code wad ⓘ
isSubjectOf descriptive grammars ⓘ
phonological studies ⓘ
isUsedIn daily communication in some villages ⓘ
local cultural practices ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
languageFamily Austronesian ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian ⓘ
South Halmahera–West New Guinea ⓘ
region Manokwari Regency ⓘ
Teluk Wondama Regency ⓘ
spokenBy Wamesa people ⓘ
spokenIn Bird’s Head Peninsula ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ
West Papua ⓘ
subfamilyOf Austronesian languages ⓘ
Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages ⓘ
usedBy indigenous communities in West Papua ⓘ
wordOrder SVO ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

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