Alune language

E609564

The Alune language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Alune people on Seram Island in Indonesia’s Maluku province.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Alune language canonical 3

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Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
coexistsWith Indonesian language
continent Asia
country Indonesia
ethnicity Alune
glottologCode alun1247
glottologName Alune
hasAlternativeName Sapalewa
Sapolewa
Wemale-Alune
hasDialect Hena Maulu dialect
Uwen dialect
Wae Lafa dialect
hasDomain local trade
oral literature
traditional rituals
hasLinguisticDescription documented in descriptive grammars and wordlists
hasNeighborLanguage Nuaulu language
Wemale language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported)
prenasalized stops (reported)
hasStatus minority language in Indonesia
isEndangered true
ISO639-3 alp
isPartOf Austronesian languages
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
isSpokenAlong Eti River
Laala River
Sapalewa River
languageFamily Austronesian languages
primaryWordOrder SVO
region western Seram
linked to: West Seram Regency
shiftTowards Indonesian language
spokenBy Alune people
spokenIn Indonesia
Maluku province
Seram Island
linked to: Seram
subfamily Central Maluku languages
usedFor daily communication within Alune communities
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.

Seram people traditionalLanguage Alune language
Alune people language Alune language