Uneapa language

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The Uneapa language is an Oceanic language spoken on Uneapa (Bali) Island in Papua New Guinea’s West New Britain Province, belonging to the Western Bismarck subgroup.

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Uneapa language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
alternateName Bali language
Uneapa
belongsToCulturalArea Melanesia
classificationStatus well-attested Oceanic language
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
endangeredStatus vulnerable
family Austronesian languages
geographicGroup Bismarck Archipelago languages
glottologCode unea1237
glottologName Uneapa
hasDomain vernacular communication
hasGrammarProperty serial verb constructions
verb-initial structures in some clause types
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom English
Tok Pisin
hasLinguisticFeature inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns
possessive classifiers
prepositions rather than postpositions
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple syllable structure, predominantly CV
small consonant inventory typical of Oceanic languages
hasSource described in Oceanic linguistics literature
hasTypologicalFeature SVO word order (subject–verb–object)
iso639-3Code bbn
languageFamilyBranch Oceanic
locatedInWaterBody Bismarck Sea
macroArea Papunesia
neighboringLanguage Mangseng language
Nakanai language
Vitu language
region West New Britain Province
spokenBy Uneapa people
spokenIn Bali Island
Uneapa Island
subclassOf Western Bismarck language
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
subgroup Meso-Melanesian languages
Oceanic languages
Western Bismarck languages
Western Oceanic languages
usedAs local lingua franca on Uneapa Island
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Western Bismarck languages hasMember Uneapa language