Fore language

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Fore language is a Papuan language spoken by the Fore people of Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands, known for its association with the study of the prion disease kuru.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Fore language canonical 3
Are language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language
natural language
associatedWith kuru
prion disease research
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
hasAlternativeName Forei
Foré
hasDomainOfUse home and community communication
local trade and interaction with neighboring groups
hasNeighboringLanguage Gimi language
Kamano language
Yagaria language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone (reported)
simple consonant inventory (relative to neighboring Papuan languages)
hasSociolinguisticStatus primarily oral language
used in traditional rituals
hasSpeakerPopulationStatus minority language
hasTypology SOV word order (subject–object–verb)
iso639-3Code for
languageFamily Trans–New Guinea languages
locatedInTimeZone UTC+10
region Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
spokenBy Fore people
spokenIn Eastern Highlands Province
Papua New Guinea
usedBy Fore communities in Okapa District
usedIn anthropological studies of the Fore people
medical fieldwork on kuru
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.

Angan languages hasLanguage Fore language
Gapapaiwa language neighboringLanguage Are language
linked to: Fore language