Hermit language

E1015910

Hermit language is an Oceanic language spoken by the inhabitants of the remote Hermit Islands in Papua New Guinea.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Hermit language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
alternativeName Hermit Islands language
Luf
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
endangeredStatusSource Ethnologue
ethnicity inhabitants of the Hermit Islands
glottocode herm1237
glottologName Hermit
hasMorphologyType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature distinction between short and long vowels
small consonant inventory typical of Oceanic languages
ISO639-3Code llf
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Oceanic languages
locatedInTimeZone UTC+10
macroFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
region Bismarck Archipelago
spokenIn Hermit Islands
Manus Province
Papua New Guinea
spokenOn Aua Island NERFINISHED
Luf Island
other islands of the Hermit group
status vulnerable language
subfamily Western Oceanic languages
typologicalFeature SVO basic word order (subject–verb–object)
usedFor daily communication among Hermit Islands inhabitants
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (2)

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

Hermit Islands hasLanguage Hermit language
Hermit Islanders hasLanguage Hermit language