Lo

E603823

Lo is a dialect of the Lo-Toga language spoken on the Torres Islands in northern Vanuatu.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Lo canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (27)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
language variety
closelyRelatedTo Toga dialect
other Torres–Banks languages
country Vanuatu
endangeredStatus vulnerable (by small speaker population context)
hasDialect Toga
linked to: Lo-Toga
hasLinguisticTypology verb–subject–object order (VSO, typical for Torres–Banks languages)
hasPhonologyFeature contrastive vowel length (typical for Torres–Banks languages)
small consonant inventory (typical for Torres–Banks languages)
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
isDialectOf Lo-Toga
isoException covered by Lo-Toga language code
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Oceanic languages
locatedInAdministrativeEntity Torba Province
partOf Lo-Toga language
region Torres Islands, Torba Province, Vanuatu
spokenIn Torres Islands
Vanuatu
spokenInRegion northern Vanuatu
subfamily Northern Vanuatu languages
linked to: Vanuatu languages

Southern Oceanic languages
Torres–Banks languages
usedBy Lo-speaking community of Torres Islands
usedIn everyday communication in Lo-speaking villages
local oral tradition in Torres Islands

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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