Bilua

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Bilua is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on Vella Lavella Island in the Solomon Islands.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bilua canonical 4
Mbilua 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Oceanic language
Papuan language
language
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
dataAsOf early 21st century
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Bilua people
glottologCode bilu1245
glottologName Bilua
hasAlignmentType nominative-accusative
hasAlternativeName Bilua (Vella Lavella)
linked to: Vella Lavella

Vella Lavella
hasClauseStructure postpositional phrases
hasDialects none or not well-documented
hasDocumentation descriptive grammars
lexicons
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking
verb-final
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasNominalClassification gender-like distinctions
hasNumberOfSpeakers approximately 9000
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
hasStressPattern predictable stress
hasVerbalMorphology rich tense-aspect-mood system
hasWordOrder SOV
iso639-3Code blb
languageContactWith English
Solomon Islands Pijin
languageFamily Central Solomon languages
Indo-Pacific languages
Papuan languages
locatedInTimeZone UTC+11
macroArea Papunesia
neighboringLanguages Lavukaleve
Savosavo
Touo
primaryLanguageOf Vella Lavella communities
region Vella Lavella Island
spokenIn Solomon Islands
Vella Lavella Island
subclassOf Central Solomon language
usedFor daily communication
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

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

Bilua language hasAlternativeName Mbilua
linked to: Bilua
Bilua glottologName Bilua
Vella Lavella Island hasSettlement Mbilua
linked to: Bilua