Bajawa language
E175377
The Bajawa language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the central highlands of Flores Island in Indonesia, known for its complex verbal morphology and distinctive phonology.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bahasa Bajawa | 1 |
| Bajawa language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1532923 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bajawa language Context triple: [Flores–Lembata languages, hasMember, Bajawa language]
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A.
Bima language
Bima language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its distinct grammar and vocabulary within the region.
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B.
Kedayan language
The Kedayan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kedayan people of Brunei, Sabah, and parts of Borneo, closely related to Malay and other Greater North Borneo languages.
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C.
Banjar language
The Banjar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Banjar people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, and is considered a regional variety closely associated with the broader Malay linguistic family.
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D.
Sumbawa language
The Sumbawa language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its place within the Bima–Sumba subgroup and its distinct phonological and grammatical features.
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E.
Banggai language
The Banggai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Banggai people in the Banggai Islands and nearby coastal areas of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bajawa language Target entity description: The Bajawa language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the central highlands of Flores Island in Indonesia, known for its complex verbal morphology and distinctive phonology.
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A.
Bima language
Bima language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its distinct grammar and vocabulary within the region.
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B.
Kedayan language
The Kedayan language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Kedayan people of Brunei, Sabah, and parts of Borneo, closely related to Malay and other Greater North Borneo languages.
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C.
Banjar language
The Banjar language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Banjar people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, and is considered a regional variety closely associated with the broader Malay linguistic family.
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D.
Sumbawa language
The Sumbawa language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia, known for its place within the Bima–Sumba subgroup and its distinct phonological and grammatical features.
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E.
Banggai language
The Banggai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Banggai people in the Banggai Islands and nearby coastal areas of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
ⓘ
Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Bajawa language
ⓘ
surface form:
Bahasa Bajawa
Bajawa ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Central Flores subgroup of Austronesian languages ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable (regional language under pressure from Indonesian) ⓘ |
| glottologCode | baja1267 ⓘ |
| hasDomain | traditional rituals in Bajawa area ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
complex syllable structure (relative to neighboring languages)
ⓘ
complex verbal morphology ⓘ contrastive vowel length (reported in some analyses) ⓘ distinctive phonology ⓘ rich affixation ⓘ verb-focused morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
derivational verbal morphology
ⓘ
pronominal clitics ⓘ verbal affixes marking aspect and mood ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Ende language
ⓘ
Lio language ⓘ Nage language ⓘ Ngadha language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
distinctive consonant inventory
ⓘ
distinctive vowel system ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | bilingualism with Indonesian is common ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| influencedBy | Indonesian language ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | bjy ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy | Bajawa people ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ
surface form:
Malayo-Polynesian
|
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+8 ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| region | East Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| spokenAround | town of Bajawa ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Flores
ⓘ
surface form:
Flores Island
Indonesia ⓘ central highlands of Flores ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Flores–Lembata languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Flores language
|
| typologicalClassification | predominantly SVO word order ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily communication in Bajawa region
ⓘ
local oral tradition ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Bajawa language Description of subject: The Bajawa language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the central highlands of Flores Island in Indonesia, known for its complex verbal morphology and distinctive phonology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bahasa Bajawa