Kensiu

E783467

Kensiu is an endangered Aslian language spoken by an indigenous Semang (Negrito) community in northern Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kensiu canonical 6
Kensiu’ 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aslian language ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ
language ⓘ
associatedWithPeople Orang Asli ⓘ
country Malaysia ⓘ
Thailand ⓘ
documentationStatus poorly documented ⓘ
endangermentStatus moribund ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ
ethnicGroupAssociated Semang ⓘ
glottocode kens1248 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Kensiuq ⓘ
Kensiu’ ⓘ
linked to: Kensiu

Kensiw ⓘ
Kensiwq ⓘ
linked to: Kensiuq
hasDomain oral tradition ⓘ
hasLinguisticArea Mainland Southeast Asia sprachbund ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature complex vowel system ⓘ
register-based phonation contrasts ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization ⓘ
register contrast ⓘ
rich vowel inventory ⓘ
hasSpeakerCommunityType hunter-gatherer ⓘ
intergenerationalTransmission declining ⓘ
isMinorityLanguageIn Malaysia ⓘ
Thailand ⓘ
ISO6393Code kns ⓘ
languageBranch Northern Aslian ⓘ
languageFamily Austroasiatic ⓘ
languageShiftTo Malay ⓘ
Thai ⓘ
languageSubfamily Aslian ⓘ
region Kedah ⓘ
Yala Province ⓘ
linked to: Yala
spokenBy Negrito community ⓘ
Semang people ⓘ
indigenous community ⓘ
spokenIn Malaysia ⓘ
Thailand ⓘ
spokenInRegion northern Peninsular Malaysia ⓘ
southern Thailand ⓘ
subclassOf Austroasiatic language ⓘ
typology analytic language ⓘ
usedByMinority true ⓘ
wordOrder SVO ⓘ
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.

Aslian → hasLanguage → Kensiu ⓘ
Aslian → languageFamilyOf → Kensiu ⓘ
Aslian branch → hasLanguage → Kensiu ⓘ
Kensiu → hasAlternativeName → Kensiu’ ⓘ
linked to: Kensiu
Batek → closelyRelatedTo → Kensiu ⓘ
Kensiu language → hasAlternativeName → Kensiu’ ⓘ
linked to: Kensiu
Kensiu language → ethnicity → Kensiu ⓘ