Southern Arapesh language

E1021848

The Southern Arapesh language is a Papuan language of the Torricelli family spoken by the Arapesh people of northern Papua New Guinea.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Arapesh (Southern) 1
Southern Arapesh language canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language
natural language
country Papua New Guinea
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Arapesh people
family Torricelli language family
glottologCode sout2947
glottologName Southern Arapesh
hasAlternativeName Arapesh (Southern)
Bumbita Arapesh
Southern Arapesh
hasDialects Bumbita dialect
Wautogik dialect
Weri dialect
Womsis dialect
Wutun dialect
hasLinguisticResearch grammatical description by linguists of Papuan languages
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasNeighboringLanguage Abelam language
Abuʼ Arapesh language
Boikin language
Mountain Arapesh language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone absent
rich consonant inventory
vowel length distinctions
hasTypologicalFeature gender system
noun classes
prefixal morphology
influencedBy English
Tok Pisin
ISO639-3Code ape
isPartOf Torricelli language phylum
languageBranch Arapesh branch
languageFamily Torricelli
primaryWordOrder SOV
region East Sepik Province
Sandaun Province
spokenIn Papua New Guinea
northern Papua New Guinea
subclassOf Arapesh languages
Papuan languages
Torricelli languages
usedBy Arapesh communities in village contexts
usedFor everyday communication within Arapesh communities
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Arapesh speaks Southern Arapesh language
Southern Arapesh language hasAlternativeName Arapesh (Southern)
linked to: Southern Arapesh language