South Tanna language

E603809

South Tanna language is an Oceanic language spoken on the southern part of Tanna Island in Vanuatu.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
South Tanna language canonical 2
Tanna languages 2
North Tanna language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu
countryCode VU
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnologueReference South Tanna
glottocode sout2850
glottologName South Tanna
hasAlternativeName Kwamera
Nafe language
Nawis language
South Tanna
hasAncestor Proto-Austronesian language
linked to: Proto-Austronesian

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
Proto-Oceanic language
hasDialects Kwamera dialect
Port Resolution dialect
White Sands dialect
hasDomain daily communication
local religious practices
traditional ceremonies
hasMorphology moderately agglutinative
hasPhonology contrastive vowel length
small consonant inventory
hasTypology SVO basic word order
ISO639-3 nwi
isSpokenIn Tafea Province
isSpokenOn Tanna Island
linked to: Tanna
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Oceanic languages
Southern Oceanic languages
neighboringLanguage Lenakel language
North Tanna language
Whitesands language
partOf Southern Vanuatu linguistic area
region Melanesia
South Pacific
spokenBy indigenous communities of southern Tanna
spokenIn Tanna Island
linked to: Tanna

Vanuatu
southern Tanna Island
subclassOf Southern Vanuatu language
usedIn local education
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.

Kwamera hasAlternativeName South Tanna language
Southern Oceanic languages includesLanguage Tanna languages
linked to: South Tanna language
Lenakel closelyRelatedTo North Tanna language
linked to: South Tanna language
Anejom hasNeighbouringLanguage Tanna languages
linked to: South Tanna language
Whitesands language hasNeighboringLanguage South Tanna language
Lenakel language hasDialect Southwest Tanna dialect
linked to: South Tanna language