Western Pantar

E815005

Western Pantar is a Papuan language spoken on Pantar Island in eastern Indonesia, known for its complex verb morphology and membership in the Alor–Pantar language family.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Western Pantar canonical 3
Alor-Pantar area 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Alor–Pantar language ⓘ
Papuan language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
alternateName Lamma ⓘ
linked to: Lamma Island

Lamma language ⓘ
Pantar Barat ⓘ
linked to: Pantar
continent Asia ⓘ
country Indonesia ⓘ
documentedIn articles on Alor–Pantar languages ⓘ
descriptive grammars of Western Pantar ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
glottocode west2574 ⓘ
glottologName Western Pantar ⓘ
hasAlignment nominative–accusative ⓘ
hasClauseStructure verb-initial in some clause types ⓘ
hasFeature SVO basic word order ⓘ
agreement prefixes on verbs ⓘ
complex verb morphology ⓘ
contrastive vowel length ⓘ
head-marking morphology ⓘ
rich pronominal system ⓘ
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Indonesian ⓘ
Malay ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
hasNeighboringLanguage Adang ⓘ
Blagar ⓘ
Kaera ⓘ
Sar ⓘ
Teiwa ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
five-vowel system ⓘ
hasPronounSystem distinguishes clusivity in first person plural ⓘ
hasResearcher František Kratochvíl ⓘ
Gary Holton ⓘ
Marian Klamer ⓘ
languageCodeISO639-3 lev ⓘ
languageFamily Alor–Pantar ⓘ
partOf Timor–Alor–Pantar languages ⓘ
region eastern Indonesia ⓘ
spokenBy ethnic groups of western Pantar Island ⓘ
spokenIn East Nusa Tenggara ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ
Pantar Island ⓘ
spokenOn Pantar ⓘ
subfamilyOf Alor–Pantar language family ⓘ
usedFor daily communication in western Pantar communities ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Eastern Indonesian linguistic area → includesRegion → Alor-Pantar area ⓘ
linked to: Western Pantar
Western Pantar → glottologName → Western Pantar ⓘ
Teiwa → hasNeighbouringLanguage → Western Pantar ⓘ