Lakalai

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Lakalai is an Oceanic language spoken by an indigenous community in Papua New Guinea.

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Label Occurrences
Lakalai canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language ⓘ
Oceanic language ⓘ
language ⓘ
continent Oceania ⓘ
country Papua New Guinea ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Nakanai ⓘ
Nakanai language ⓘ
hasBasicWordOrder SVO ⓘ
hasDialect Bileki dialect ⓘ
Loso dialect ⓘ
Maututu dialect ⓘ
Ubae dialect ⓘ
Vele dialect ⓘ
hasDomain local trade and social interaction ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ
hasEthnolinguisticGroup Nakanai people ⓘ
hasLanguageCodeStandard ISO 639-3 ⓘ
hasLinguisticClassification Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Oceanic > Western Oceanic > Nakanai ⓘ
hasLinguisticTypology head-initial language ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType mostly analytic ⓘ
hasNeighboringLanguage Baining languages ⓘ
Kol ⓘ
Kove ⓘ
Mangseng ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
simple consonant inventory typical of Oceanic languages ⓘ
hasStatus minority language in Papua New Guinea ⓘ
hasTransmission intergenerational transmission under pressure from Tok Pisin and English ⓘ
isEndangered true ⓘ
iso639-3Code nak ⓘ
isPartOf Papuan languages context (geographical, not genetic) ⓘ
isSubjectOf descriptive linguistic studies on Oceanic languages ⓘ
languageBranch Oceanic languages ⓘ
languageFamily Austronesian languages ⓘ
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
region West New Britain Province ⓘ
spokenBy indigenous community in Papua New Guinea ⓘ
spokenIn New Britain ⓘ
Papua New Guinea ⓘ
usedFor daily communication within local communities ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

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