Blanga

E538595

Blanga is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Blanga canonical 2
Blablanga 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
belongsTo Santa Isabel languages
country Solomon Islands
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Blanga people
geographicDistribution coastal villages of Santa Isabel
northwestern Santa Isabel Island
hasAlternativeName Blablanga
linked to: Blanga

Blablanga language
Blanga language
linked to: Blang language
hasDialects northern Blanga
southern Blanga
hasDomainRestriction home and village domains
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammar studies
lexicographic work
phonological analysis
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive prenasalized stops
small vowel inventory
hasSpeakerCommunity rural communities
influencedBy English
Solomon Islands Pijin
iso639-3Code blp
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Northwest Solomonic languages
Oceanic languages
languageShiftTowards English
Solomon Islands Pijin
neighboringLanguage Cheke Holo
Kokota
Zabana
notWidelyUsedIn formal education
national media
region Santa Isabel Province
spokenIn Solomon Islands
spokenOn Santa Isabel Island
status minority language
subclassOf Northwest Solomonic language
typologicalFeature SVO word order
phonemic vowel length absent
prepositional language
usedFor everyday communication
local trade
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Blanga hasAlternativeName Blablanga
linked to: Blanga
Blanga people ethnonym Blanga