Keo language

E174816

The Keo language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Keo people on Flores Island in Indonesia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bahasa Keo 1
Keo language canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Ende language
Nage language
continent Asia
country Indonesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Keo people
hasAlternativeName Bahasa Keo
linked to: Keo language

Nage-Keo
hasGrammaticalFeature numeral classifiers (limited)
preposed possessors
prepositions rather than postpositions
hasLinguisticArea Central Flores
hasMorphologicalType moderately isolating
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported variably)
simple consonant inventory typical of Central Flores languages
hasResearchOn language contact with Indonesian
morphosyntax
phonology
ISO639-3Code xxk
languageFamily Austronesian languages
locatedOn Flores Island
linked to: Flores
region East Nusa Tenggara
spokenBy Keo people
spokenIn Flores Island
linked to: Flores

Indonesia
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
subgroup Central Flores languages
usedAlongside Indonesian language
usedFor daily communication within Keo communities
wordOrder SVO
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.

Keo language hasAlternativeName Bahasa Keo
linked to: Keo language