Semai

E784005

Semai is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Semai canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aslian language ⓘ
Austroasiatic language ⓘ
language ⓘ
belongsTo Orang Asli languages ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Semnam ⓘ
Temiar ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
country Malaysia ⓘ
ethnicGroup Semai people ⓘ
glottologCode sema1266 ⓘ
glottologName Semai ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Semaq ⓘ
Səmai ⓘ
hasDialects Central Semai ⓘ
Northern Semai ⓘ
Southern Semai ⓘ
hasDocumentation descriptive grammars ⓘ
lexicons ⓘ
text collections ⓘ
hasLinguisticTypology Mon–Khmer branch language ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
register contrast ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Malay ⓘ
ISO639-3 sea ⓘ
languageFamily Aslian ⓘ
Austroasiatic ⓘ
majorContactLanguage Malay ⓘ
morphologicalType analytic ⓘ
region Pahang ⓘ
Perak ⓘ
central Peninsular Malaysia ⓘ
spokenBy Orang Asli ⓘ
Semai people ⓘ
spokenIn Malaysia ⓘ
Peninsular Malaysia ⓘ
linked to: West Malaysia
status endangered language ⓘ
minority language ⓘ
subfamilyOf Aslian ⓘ
Austroasiatic ⓘ
usedBy indigenous community ⓘ
usedFor daily communication ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
usedInEducation limited community-based education ⓘ
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 → Semai ⓘ
Aslian → languageFamilyOf → Semai ⓘ
Aslian branch → hasLanguage → Semai ⓘ
Temiar → relatedGroups → Semai ⓘ
Senoi → hasSubgroup → Semai ⓘ
Semai → glottologName → Semai ⓘ
Central Semai → ethnicGroup → Semai ⓘ