Suwawa language

E175005

The Suwawa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Suwawa people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is part of the Gorontalo–Mongondow subgroup.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Suwawa language canonical 4
Sahu language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Gorontalo language
Mongondow language
country Indonesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable or endangered
ethnicGroup Suwawa people
ethnologueReferenceName Suwawa
glottologCode suwa1241
glottologName Suwawa
hasAlternativeName Bonda
Bonda’
Suawa
hasAncestor Proto-Austronesian language
linked to: Proto-Austronesian

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
hasEndonym Suwawa
hasExonym Suwawa language
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Bolango language
Gorontalo language
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNumberOfSpeakers a few thousand (approximate, low population)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
hasWordOrder SVO (subject–verb–object) (typologically expected for the subgroup)
isMinorityLanguageIn Indonesia
ISO639-3Code swu
isSubjectOf Austronesian comparative linguistics research
Gorontalo–Mongondow subgroup studies
isVulnerable true
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
languageSubgroup Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
region North Sulawesi
spokenBy Suwawa people
spokenIn Bone Bolango Regency
Gorontalo Province
linked to: Gorontalo

Indonesia
Sulawesi
linked to: Celebes

northern Sulawesi
subclassOf Gorontalo–Mongondow language
Malayo-Polynesian language
language of Indonesia
usedIn local oral tradition
traditional songs and stories
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Gorontalo localLanguage Suwawa language
Gorontalo language closelyRelatedTo Suwawa language
Ternate language closelyRelatedTo Sahu language
linked to: Suwawa language
Suwawa language hasExonym Suwawa language